Four years and 245 reviews later, the Ottawa Review of Books is still going strong, bringing to you our insights on the writing of top Canadian writers. In our fourth-anniversary issue, we are pleased to offer nine reviews on new works of fiction and non-fiction by Ian Thomas Shaw, Jackie Kai Ellis, Stanley Péan, Mark Frutkin, Claire Holden Rothman, A.J. Devlin, Brenda Chapman, Ursula Pflug and C.C. Humphreys.