Journalist Robyn Doolittle’s latest work of non-fiction is an in-depth look at sexual politics and rape culture in the wake of the #MeToo movement, including the ramifications on the Canadian justice system. Extending the research ... Read More »
October 10, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
In her 2001 memoir, A Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand recalls that her grandfather told her “he knew what people we came from.” Despite the 13-year-old Brand’s prodding, which included rhyming ... Read More »
October 7, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
In her 2001 memoir, A Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand recalls that her grandfather told her “he knew what people we came from.” Despite the 13-year-old Brand’s prodding, which included rhyming ... Read More »
October 7, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews
What is art, and what is it for? Jonathan Ball tackles these two age-old questions in his fourth collection of poems, his first in seven years. Ball’s answer to the first part of the question ... Read More »
Some authors are experimental by choice; others come by it biochemically. Toronto writers Martha Baillie and Christina Baillie, sisters as well as creators of the idiosyncratic co-autobiography Sister Language, have both bases covered. Unconventional in ... Read More »
October 3, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
In 1921, the Caetani family – Duke Leone, his wife, Ofelia, and their daughter, Sveva – fled their native Italy for Vernon, B.C., in part because the Duke was anti-Mussolini and wanted to extricate his ... Read More »
September 30, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Early on in Hungarian author Benedek Totth’s debut novel, the unnamed teenaged protagonist has a dream in which his dead father – now with the head of a shark – pleads, “Keep swimming, son, even ... Read More »
September 30, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
In Maria Meindl’s debut novel, set in 1980s Toronto, a stage manager falls for the enigmatic owner of a cutting-edge theatre company. Rebecca Weir joins SenseInSound, whose rehearsals take place in a cold, underground warehouse. ... Read More »
September 30, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Martha Gellhorn was born in 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri, and almost immediately was desperate to be somewhere else. She left for France in 1930 and embarked on a 60-year career as a foreign correspondent ... Read More »
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