Reviews

The Museum at the End of the World

“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

Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours)

By Harold R. Johnson

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 24, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

What Love Is: And What It Could Be

By Carrie Jenkins

We talk about love a lot. Despite our mass obsession, however, love remains a subject that has largely evaded scientific, sociological, and philosophical study. Unless it’s wrapped in a Hollywood rom-com starring Sandra Bullock, we’re ... Read More »

January 20, 2017 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Health & Self-help

The Lonely Hearts Hotel

By Heather O’Neill

Heather O’Neill explored the short-story form in her previous book, Daydreams of Angels, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A departure from her first two titles, the best-selling novels Lullabies for Little ... Read More »

January 16, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Birds Art Life

By Kyo Maclear

Back in 2012, author Kyo Maclear was feeling untethered. Her father was becoming increasingly frail, having succumbed to two strokes and a couple of bad falls. Then an MRI revealed he had an unruptured cerebral ... Read More »

January 9, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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