Reviews

Votive

Annick MacAskill’s Votive, the anticipated follow-up to her 2022 Governor General’s Award–winning collection Shadow Blight, combines themes of intimacy, privacy, eros, and queerness, while the transgressive and the religious infuse this collection. Of course, votive ... Read More »

November 27, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself

By Adelle Purdham

The lifelong process of learning, of constantly weaving the tapestry of who you are and who you will be, is never without its challenges. That being said, it’s often easier than the process of unlearning ... Read More »

November 27, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Coup de Grâce

By Sofia Ajram

“The atmosphere is smoky grey. Dark. Penumbra almost-dusk, but stripped of any colour,” writes Sofia Ajram in an early description of an endless, eldritch subway station. “Seemingly small, it unravels into a boundless labyrinth with ... Read More »

November 13, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ No Credit River

By Zoe Whittall

When I begin reading Zoe Whittall’s No Credit River, I am on a train. I usually read on the train. As I lean in to highlight certain lines – the pages rest on the foldable ... Read More »

November 6, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews

Subterrane

By Valérie Bah

Representation in the arts isn’t simply a matter of augmenting narratives that have been neglected. Within any identity category, there are bound to be fractures – nuances and contradictions that defy easy categorization. Must efforts ... Read More »

October 30, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Poutine: A Deep-Fried Road Trip of Discovery

By Justin Giovannetti Lamothe

Journalist Justin Giovannetti Lamothe crosses La Belle Province to discover the origins of Québec’s most beloved export, poutine, in this new book of culinary history. The origins of this humble dish are muddied; as Clement ... Read More »

October 23, 2024 | Filed under: Food & Drink, History, Reviews

★ This Is It

By Matthew Fox

Sexuality, class, family, death: these grand themes are given a rich and deep exploration in This Is It, a moving and provocative debut novel by Matthew Fox. A Canadian now living in Berlin, Fox (formerly ... Read More »

October 16, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Reviews

South Side of a Kinless River

By Marilyn Dumont

“Colonialism is an absence that widens,” writes celebrated poet Marilyn Dumont in “misāskwatо̄mina,” the first poem of her new collection, South Side of a Kinless River. The collection, divided into three sections, opens with a ... Read More »

October 16, 2024 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Poetry, Reviews

★ White World

By Saad T. Farooqi

Saad T. Farooqi’s debut novel White World starts right in the middle of the action – with his protagonist, Avaan, running with a gun in his hand, in a dystopian Pakistan engulfed in a civil ... Read More »

October 9, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Hope Is a Woman’s Name: My Journey as a Bedouin Palestinian Activist in Israel

By Amal Elsana Alh’jooj

Hope can be a woman’s name, and it can also be a motivating force. For Amal Elsana Alh’jooj, hope was bestowed upon her at birth when her father decided to call her Amal, which means ... Read More »

October 2, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Race & Ethnic Relations, Reviews

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