Reviews

★ The Inferno

By Lorna Goodison (trans.); Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century narrative poem The Inferno has been praised and loved, adapted and parodied in countless translations over the centuries. For two decades, Jamaican-Canadian poet Lorna Goodison engaged with the cantos of this epic ... Read More »

March 19, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ I Remember Lights

By Ben Ladouceur

Hello, gorgeous. Barbra Streisand’s iconic line, as Fanny Brice, captured during the filming of Funny Girl in late 1967, has all sorts of uses. Unbidden, the line came to me as I pored over the ... Read More »

March 12, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Flesh

By David Szalay

“There’s something terrible about the way normality asserts itself.” The statement, placed in the close third-person consciousness of István, the protagonist of Montreal-born David Szalay’s latest novel, could serve as a thesis for the entire ... Read More »

March 5, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Mother: A Graphic Memoir

By Rachel Deutsch

Rachel Deutsch had always wanted a baby, and she had a pragmatic approach to having one – find a partner, improve herself, and become a mother before she got “old.” Although seemingly simple, her new ... Read More »

February 26, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy

By Ronald J. Deibert

“If you own a device and connect to a cellular service anywhere in the world, you’re trackable.” That’s the sobering assessment of Ronald J. Deibert, someone who knows whereof he speaks. As the founder and ... Read More »

February 5, 2025 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Playing Hard: A Life and Death in Games, Sports, and Play

By Peter Unwin

During his final days, Peter Unwin’s father talked a great deal about sports. Through an oxygen mask, one eye blind from a stroke, he told stories about “the buffoonery of men, brave but foolish men ... Read More »

January 29, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

By Bonny Reichert

“We are starving.” It’s a striking turn of phrase to begin a memoir about food and family and survival from Nazi death camps for what is a simple lament about a late lunch during a ... Read More »

January 22, 2025 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Memoir & Biography

Heliotropia

By Manahil Bandukwala

Manahil Bandukwala’s second collection of poems, Heliotropia, shares its name with a unisex perfume by Swedish luxury brand Byredo. Like the scent’s floral note of jasmine, a flower that opens at night, the works in ... Read More »

December 11, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Hester in Sunlight

By Hannah Calder

Just shy of 175 years ago, Hester Prynne secured a primo spot in literary history. Arguably, thanks to school curricula and films such as Easy A, Hester remains a familiar name. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne describes ... Read More »

December 4, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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