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Tag: Canadian literature

Review – Julius Juliuis

Posted on October 13, 2026

Inside the world’s oldest advertising agency—a surreal architectural wonder as old as Western civilization—three distinct employees across different eras grapple with bizarre absurdities, hauntings, and moral compromises while fulfilling their professional duties.

Review – Liú Fāxiàn

Posted on October 9, 2026

When a clue hidden in a classic poem sets a young man and his sister on a dangerous hunt for the lost, magical plunder of a notorious bandit syndicate, they must outrun the Emperor’s deadly Brocade Guard while solving a game of increasingly lethal riddles.

Review – The Revived

Posted on September 17, 2026

A privileged young man hunts for his missing mother—one of fifty people recently revived from a coma who all share a dire message about the fate of humanity.

Review – This Accident of Being Lost

Posted on September 6, 2026

Through a series of interconnected series of scenes and images drawn from a decolonized reality, an Indigenous storyteller challenges dominant colonial narratives and reclaims the privilege of creating her own.

Review – Shadows of Divison

Posted on March 25, 2026

Shadows of Division. M. A. McAlpine. 2025.  The fourth and penultimate book in the Mya of Thebes Chronicles.  As the series hurtles towards resolution, Mya is separated from her friends, and followers….

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