Reviews

The Witches of New York

For a novel that purports to be about female rebellion, Ami McKay’s The Witches of New York is uncomfortably twee. It tells the story of Adelaide Thom (who figured, as Moth, in McKay’s previous novel, ... Read More »

October 13, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Don’t I Know You?

By Marni Jackson

While the pop-culture imprint of the music video for Kanye West’s “Famous” was less indelible than its creator expected, the clip’s basic thesis holds up: “Celebrities – they’re just like us!” The floating, Lost Highway–like ... Read More »

October 11, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Bullet Is for You

By Martine Delvaux; David Homel (trans.)

In June of 2012, at the age of 23, Quebec writer Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour. Her response was to write through the comingled grief, anger, confusion, and frustration that accompanied ... Read More »

October 5, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Belief

By Mayank Bhatt

Novelist Mayank Bhatt, who immigrated to Canada from Mumbai in 2008, delivers a taut, timely debut focused on one immigrant family and the devastating experience that threatens to destroy the life they have struggled to ... Read More »

October 5, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Testament

By Vickie Gendreau; Aimee Wall (trans.)

October 3, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ After James

By Michael Helm

Michael Helm has spent his career probing the relationship between the intellectual and the physical. He tackled the subject in his first two novels, The Projectionist and In the Place of Last Things, by exploring ... Read More »

October 3, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known

By Danila Botha

When Danila Botha burst onto the scene in 2010 with the story collection Got No Secrets, she was hailed as an emerging literary talent. Her voice was fresh, raw, and honest; her debut quickly established ... Read More »

October 3, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel

By David Leach

Reading David Leach’s thoroughly researched and expertly envisioned new book, one cannot help but be reminded of the twin etymology of the word “utopia.” The term comes from both the Greek eu topos, meaning a ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism

By Tim McCaskell

Tim McCaskell is often referred to as a granddaddy of gay activism in Canada, though he’s suggested he prefers the term “dinosaur.” In his exhaustive history of LGBT politics in Toronto and beyond, McCaskell tracks ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Swinging Through Dixie

By Leon Rooke

Toward the end of her fine new collection of deceptively expansive short stories, Kathy Page unfurls a little number called “Daddy,” told from the point of view of a child spelunking with his (her?) father ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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