In his new book, author Tim Blackmore compares the way Germany and the U.S. branded themselves during the Second World War. One country was an evil dictatorship; the other a celebrated democracy. Given this reality, ... Read More »
Keith Maillard never knew his father. He was just a baby when his parents split up, and he grew up with the same two stories from his mother: “‘He was a good dancer,’ was the ... Read More »
December 5, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Singer and media personality Mozhdah Jamalzadah brought a vibrant personality and fresh cultural lens to citizens in Afghanistan by way of The Mozhdah Show, an Oprah-style television program that aired in the country during the ... Read More »
December 2, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
The debut novel from Hazel Jane Plante is not easily categorizable. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) is an unapologetically original amalgamation of many disparate elements: a rough draft of an encyclopedia cataloguing a fictional television ... Read More »
December 2, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
In Possess the Air, author Taras Grescoe takes us on a tour of Rome in the early years of fascist Italy. While the main focus is on people who resisted, the unexpected character is the ... Read More »
December 2, 2019 | Filed under: History
There is a sense of calm as Victoria, a middle-aged, mixed-race Cree woman, sets off on a road trip to James Bay with her settler husband, Daniel. It is a calm derived from satiety and ... Read More »
November 25, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Canadian landscape painter Lawren P. Harris told Mary Pratt in the early days of her career that if two artists were to wed, only one would become a success. In her case, Harris declared, that ... Read More »
November 21, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
In the introduction to Bawaajigan: Stories of Power, the 18th instalment of Exile’s Anthology series, co-editor Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler explains the volume’s title: “Bawaajigan,” he writes, is “the Anishinaabemowin word for dream, or vision.” ... Read More »
November 18, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
When I lived in Manhattan as a fledgling writer, I often went into the big bookstores to browse the selection of literary journals on the racks. Flipping through their pages packed with new fiction and ... Read More »
November 11, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
When I lived in Manhattan as a fledgling writer, I often went into the big bookstores to browse the selection of literary journals on the racks. Flipping through their pages packed with new fiction and ... Read More »
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