Reviews

★ A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin

Scholar, writer, and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg of Alderville First Nation) offers her distinctive Nishnaabeg storytelling in this year’s instalment of the Kreisel Lecture Series, entitled A Short History of the Blockade. ... Read More »

March 4, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

A Brief View from the Coastal Suite

By Karen Hofmann

Karen Hofmann’s novels deserve a place on the shelves of discerning readers across the country. Her 2014 debut, After Alice, was a gorgeous evocation of the Okanagan Valley, which she followed with 2017’s What Is ... Read More »

March 4, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Begin by Telling

By Meg Remy

“I wish I could tell my teenage self ... not to worry what other people think,” say a multitude of voices in a poem-like interlude on Heavy Light, the seventh album from Meg Remy, a.k.a. ... Read More »

March 1, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Return of the Trickster

By Eden Robinson

Spiritual beings, extraordinary powers, and jokes about Frozen are unleashed with abandon in the third and final instalment of Eden Robinson’s groundbreaking Trickster saga. After the first books dawdled through the set-up, this book gleefully ... Read More »

March 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression, and Resilience

By Mark Henick

At 12 years old, Mark Henick knew he had mental-health issues: anxiety, depression, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts. At 15, he tried to kill himself. For those familiar with Henick’s wildly popular 2013 TEDx Talk, the ... Read More »

February 25, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Annie and the Wolves

By Andromeda Romano Lax

The new novel from Vancouver Island writer Andromeda Romano-Lax, begins with something of a familiar premise: a struggling academic comes into possession of previously unknown archival materials relating to her subject of study, with life-changing ... Read More »

February 25, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, Mackenzie King, and the Untold  Friendships That Won WWII

By Neville Thompson

The diaries of Canada’s 10th prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, have been used to analyze Canada at a critical time in its history, as well as his own politics and personal life. Neville Thompson, ... Read More »

February 22, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

White Coal City:  A Memoir of Place and Family

By Robert Boschman

A deeply considered life might be laid out as a map, or a series of markings meant to keep record; White Coal City is a memoir made up of many significant moments, historical details, and ... Read More »

February 18, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Her Name Was Margaret:  Life and Death on the Streets

By Denise Davy

In January 1993, Denise Davy met a woman whose brief acquaintance would shape the next two-and-a-half decades of her life. Davy, then a reporter for the Hamilton Spectator, was spending the night at a shelter ... Read More »

February 11, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

★ Gutter Child

By Jael Richardson

The debut novel by Brampton, Ontario, author Jael Richardson – founder of the Festival of Literary Diversity and author of the memoir The Stone Thrower – is an outstanding and fearless story that follows a ... Read More »

February 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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