Reviews

Finding Edward

Sheila Murray’s debut novel, Finding Edward, chronicles the story of Cyril Rowntree, a twentysomething international student who arrives in Toronto from a small village in Jamaica heavy with responsibility and grief from the loss of ... Read More »

June 29, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay

By Merilyn Simonds

Anyone who has studied Canadian history has likely seen a photograph of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, even if unknowingly. She’s crouching in the background in one of the most famous images of the infant Dionne ... Read More »

June 21, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf

By Sina Queyras

Each chapter of Sina Queyras’s Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf opens by revisiting the corresponding chapter of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. For example: But, you may say, we asked you to speak about ... Read More »

June 15, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The Longbow, the Schooner and the Violin: Wood and Human Achievement

By Marq de Villiers

Through the vision of journalist and author Marq de Villiers, you can see the forest for the trees. The natural history of forests and the complex interrelationship between humanity, trees, and wood are the focus ... Read More »

June 8, 2022 | Filed under: Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

The Cine Star Salon

By Leah Ranada

Upon entering the world of The Cine Star Salon – Leah Ranada’s dazzling debut novel – the reader is introduced to Sophia, a Philippines-born Vancouverite, as she attempts to balance the books of her newly ... Read More »

May 25, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Blue Portugal and Other Essays

By Theresa Kishkan

Early in Tanis MacDonald’s new essay collection, Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female, the author asserts that stories about walking have largely been the domain of a certain kind of writer on a certain kind ... Read More »

May 17, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female

By Tanis MacDonald

May 17, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

★ Mansions of the Moon

By Shyam Selvadurai

After nearly a decade, bestselling author of Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts Shyam Selvadurai returns with a sweeping new novel set in ancient India. It introduces readers to Siddhartha Gotama – the man who ... Read More »

May 11, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ This Is How We Love

By Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore’s latest novel contains all the hallmarks that fans of the St. John’s author have come to expect: tightly constructed chapters that paint vivid images despite their almost minimalist prose; dialogue and turns of ... Read More »

May 4, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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