Index Cards

A collection of 14 essays, many of them extensions of pieces that originally involved other media, along with several reproductions of photographs, Index Cards is a frequently fascinating, if ultimately exhausting, survey of Toronto-born, New ... Read More »

June 8, 2020 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada

By Jody Wilson-Raybould

Jody Wilson-Raybould’s career has included many posts in law and political office, including being the first Indigenous person to serve as minister of justice and attorney general of Canada. In From Where I Stand: Rebuilding ... Read More »

December 9, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World

By Kai Cheng Thom

Kai Cheng Thom is a force within social-justice communities. A quick-witted, sharp-tongued, staggeringly prolific trans woman of colour, Thom is known primarily for her insightful and critical writing – including a fairy-tale novel, a book ... Read More »

November 4, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

★ Murder and Other Essays

By David Adams Richards

“Murder,” David Adams Richards writes in his new work of non-fiction, “is always the same crime. It is always done in fear and rage. It always tries to hide itself and run away, and when ... Read More »

October 21, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

The Nothing That Is: Essays on Art, Literature and Being

By Johanna Skibsrud

In her 2001 memoir, A Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand recalls that her grandfather told her “he knew what people we came from.” Despite the 13-year-old Brand’s prodding, which included rhyming ... Read More »

October 7, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field

By Billy-Ray Belcourt

Billy-Ray Belcourt has become one of Canada’s poetry sweethearts since the release of his 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize winner, This Wound Is a World. His sophomore collection – a masterful blend of the personal and ... Read More »

September 5, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Coventry: Essays

By Rachel Cusk

One of the great pleasures of a well-executed essay is not its structure, the clarity of its argument, or the distillation of its ideas, but the opportunity to see a great mind in action. In ... Read More »

July 25, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

By Amy Fung

In her new book, art critic Amy Fung does what a lot of BIPOC thinkers, especially Indigenous ones, ask us to do: deliberately situate ourselves in our narratives, clearly positioning ourselves vis-à-vis colonialism and the ... Read More »

May 27, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Criticism & Essays

Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing

By Suzanne Methot

A book that explores the destructive effects of colonialism on Indigenous peoples and the process of healing from hundreds of years of abuse does not make for light reading. In Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous ... Read More »

March 11, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

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