Reviews

Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move

Montreal-based author Mary Soderstrom has set herself a giant task in Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move – one that begins with the first anatomically modern humans leaving Africa 50,000 to ... Read More »

February 8, 2017 | Filed under: History, Science, Technology & Environment

Al-Tounsi

By Anton Piatigorsky

American history is largely a construction of the U.S. Supreme Court. Patriots loudly bray about democracy and the Constitution, but realists understand that the unelected judiciary is charged with interpreting the law of the land, ... Read More »

January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations

By Richard Wagamese

The theme of healing is present in two recent non-fiction books by indigenous authors. But each author approaches the process of healing, and the question of what needs to be healed in the first place, ... Read More »

January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples

The Museum at the End of the World

By John Metcalf

“John Metcalf is not the enemy,” wrote Jeet Heer in the National Post in 2010. He was responding to a Walrus essay by André Alexis which argued that Metcalf, who was born in 1938 in ... Read More »

January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD

By Jessica Dee Humphreys; Roméo Dallaire

For more than two decades, Roméo Dallaire, a retired lieutenant-general in the Canadian Armed Forces, has borne the inconceivably heavy weight of representing the public face of the international community’s failure to prevent the 1994 ... Read More »

January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories

By Kaitlin Tremblay (ed.); Kelsi Morris (ed.)

Kelsi Morris and Kaitlin Tremblay did not set out to create a traditional anthology of monster stories. In the introduction to the 13th instalment in the Exile Anthology series, the editors write about the monsters ... Read More »

January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Where the Truth Lies: Selected Essays

By Rudy Wiebe

Rudy Wiebe, admired and revered for both his fiction and non-fiction, has been writing for publication since the 1950s. In that time, he has naturally accumulated drawers full of fugitive pieces: lectures, talks, prefaces, newspaper ... Read More »

January 26, 2017 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Baloney

By Maxime Raymond Bock; Pablo Strauss (trans.)

Maxime Raymond Bock, author of the short-story collection Atavisms (which won the 2012 Prix Adrienne-Choquette and appeared in an English translation by Pablo Strauss) and the novella Rosemont de profil, returns with the deceptive Baloney, ... Read More »

January 26, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mad Richard

By Lesley Krueger

Lesley Krueger’s Mad Richard opens in Bedlam. Also known as the Bethlem Royal Hospital for the mentally ill, it houses artist Richard Dadd, who we learn in the book’s first paragraph is a murderer. A ... Read More »

January 24, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels