In addition to being Reviews Editor at The New Quarterly, Selena Mercuri is also an avid reviewer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in her own right. Her reviews have appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Literary Review of Canada, Room Magazine, The Ampersand Review, The Seaboard Review, Prairie Fire, and other publications. Here is a complete list of her reviews in reverse chronological order:
–Ajar by Margo LaPierre, Infinite Audition by Charlie Petch, & Reckless by Andrea MacPherson – EVENT Magazine (FORTHCOMING)
–Wonderland Road by Carrianne Leung (HarperCollins Canada, 2026) – The Ampersand Review (FORTHCOMING).
–Oyster by Marianne Ackerman (Dundurn Press, 2026) – The Literary Review of Canada (FORTHCOMING)
–Oxford Soju Club by Jinwoo Park (Dundurn Press, 2025) – The Seaboard Review
–Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo (Book*hug Press, 2025) – The BC Review
–Worldly Girls by Tamara Jong (Book*hug Press, 2025) – The New Quarterly
–The World After Rain by Canisia Lubrin (McClelland & Stewart, 2025) – The Fiddlehead
–The Book of Interruptions by Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025).
–Better Next Year by JJ Lee (Tidewater Press, 2023) – The BC Review
–Rufous & Calliope by Sarah Louise Butler (Douglas & McIntyre, 2025) – The BC Review
–NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch (ECW Press, 2025) – The Seaboard Review
–Cannon by Lee Lai (Drawn & Quarterly, 2025) – The Literary Review of Canada
–Skin by Catherine Bush (Goose Lane Editions, 2025) – The Literary Review of Canada
–Antibody by Rebecca Salazar (McClelland & Stewart, 2025) – The Seaboard Review
–Myth by Terese Mason Pierre (House of Anansi, 2025) – The Seaboard Review
–White by Aviva Rubin (RE: Books, 2024) – The Seaboard Review
–Lion by Tallas Munroe (Ace of Swords, 2024) – The Seaboard Review
–Milktooth by Jaime Burnet (Nimbus Publishing, 2025) – The Literary Review of Canada
–Alphabet Soup by A. Gregory Frankson (Dundurn Press, 2025) – The Seaboard Review
–Who by Water by Greg Rhyno (Cormorant Books, 2025) – The Seaboard Review
–Scientific Marvel by Chimwemwe Undi (House of Anansi, 2024) – Prairie Fire
–How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair (Simon & Schuster, 2024) – The Fiddlehead
–Forecast: Pretty Bleak by Chris Bailey (McClelland & Stewart, 2025) – The Seaboard Review
–RE: Wild Her by Shannon Webb-Campbell (Book*hug Press, 2025) – The Seaboard Review
–The Suicide Tourist by Myna Wallin (Ekstasis Editions, 2024) – The Temz Review
–Along Came A Gardener by Diana Stevan (Island House Publishing, 2025) – The BC Review
–Buzzkill Clamshell by Amber Dawn (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025) – Room Magazine
–Disorder by Concetta Principe (Gordon Hill Press, 2024) – The Ampersand Review
–The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue (Simon & Schuster, 2025) – The Literary Review of Canada
–Time and Tide by J.M. Frey (W by Wattpad, 2024) – The Seaboard Review
–Rebellion Box by Hollay Ghadery (Radiant Press, 2023) – The Seaboard Review
–The Weather Diviner by Elizabeth Murphy (Breakwater Books, 2024) The Seaboard Review
–Total Party Kill by Craig Francis Power (Breakwater Books, 2024) – The Seaboard Review
–Fallosophy by Ardra Shephard (Douglas & McIntyre, 2025) – The Seaboard Review
–Only Insistence by James Lindsay (Goose Lane Editions, 2023) – The Seaboard Review
–What I Mean To Say by Ian Williams (House of Anansi, 2024) – The Seaboard Review
–Strange Water by Sarah Moses (Guernica Editions, 2024) – The Literary Review of Canada
Selena Mercuri 