Reviews

★ The Lost Season: A Memoir of Infertility, Motherhood, and the Worry and Work Demanded of Women

These days, the term “liminality” is used to describe just about any place or thing that gives a sense of ambiguity or unease, but when folklorist Arnold van Gennep first coined it back in 1909, ... Read More »

June 3, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Tales of the Mountains and the Sea

By Dania Idriss

Dania Idriss’s Tales of the Mountains and the Sea is a cross-genre debut collection in which characters’ lives, beliefs, and actions are interwoven with Middle Eastern folklore and superstition. In five stories set in Lebanon ... Read More »

May 20, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Body Riddle

By Sam K MacKinnon

Lex is having a difficult winter. Since identifying as gender-fluid, they no longer feel sexual with their bisexual partner Ada. They are enduring a lot to get approval for gender-affirming chest surgery, but can’t decide ... Read More »

May 13, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Dad Era

By Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel’s sixth book, Dad Era, reads like a long autobiographical poem addressed to his daughter, Phoenix, that seams together generations of family through written and visual narratives. Told in the style of brief musings ... Read More »

April 29, 2026 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Poetry, Reviews

Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability

By Therese Estacion

One of the long-held concerns of the international disability community is that the non-disabled world prefers to keep disabled writers confined to a prescribed box wherein we write endlessly and non-confrontationally about loss but never ... Read More »

April 22, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Qaf’s People

By Sadiqa de Meijer

Qaf’s People marks Sadiqa de Meijer’s return to poetry after the 2020 Governor General’s Award–winning memoir alfabet / alphabet. In Qaf’s People, the poet laureate of Kingston, Ontario, resurfaces questions about diaspora, belonging, identity, language, ... Read More »

April 22, 2026 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ The Tinder Sonnets

By Jennifer LoveGrove

The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove has everything I want from a book of poetry. Needle-sharp metaphors and language play. Immersive imagery that assaults your senses and makes you forget you’re reading a book. A ... Read More »

April 15, 2026 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

In Crow’s Field

By Judith Thompson

Ana Burns is lying in a field of mustard flowers, “stoned on Windowpane acid,” her mind drifting back and forth through a series of horrific events from her childhood. Now 17 years old, Ana is ... Read More »

April 15, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Spying on America

By Bill Gaston

With his new book Spying on America, B.C. writer and retired writing professor Bill Gaston chronicles an almost two-week, early-summer car journey “through a bunch of red states, during Covid, between two Trumps.” Despite the ... Read More »

April 8, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Travel

Weird Babies

By Jaclyn Desforges

Pleasure and danger commingle within the pages of Weird Babies, the striking and provocative fiction debut by RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award–winning poet and children’s author Jaclyn Desforges. So do realism and the absurd. Over ... Read More »

April 8, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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