Reviews

New Albion

As aficionados of the theatre know, the Victorian age was arguably one of the bleakest eras for the art form, complete with grubby dressing rooms, dingy performance halls, pathetic wages, unappreciative audiences, and stale, torrid ... Read More »

July 25, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War

By Taras Grescoe

Any impression of the smart set’s antics between the 20th century’s two cataclysmic wars instantly conjures the cabarets of Weimar Berlin or the nightclubs and brasseries of 1930s Paris. A more distant but no less ... Read More »

July 25, 2016 | Filed under: History

Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts

By Lucas K. Law (ed.); Susan Forest (ed.)

Anthologies of themed short stories carry a significant risk: if the theme is too rigid or overpowering, the stories themselves may be hampered or crippled. Conversely, if the theme is too loose, any sense of ... Read More »

July 25, 2016 | Filed under: Anthologies

Congratulations on Everything

By Nathan Whitlock

The next time you find yourself in a bar, consider buying a drink for the owner, because it’s likely he or she needs it more than you. At least, that’s what writer and Q&Q contributing ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Life in the Court of Matane

By Eric Dupont; Peter McCambridge (trans.)

All Quebecers, it seemed, turned on their televisions during the summer of 1976, when the elfin Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci competed at the Montreal Olympics. The fascination was not just in her perfect 10-point performances. ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

By Madeleine Thien

There is so much going on in Madeleine Thien’s third novel that it’s hard, at times, to keep things straight. Nevertheless, the book is worth the effort because of the richness of detail the author ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Spawning Grounds

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Fire is the element that threatens the people and land of south-central B.C.’s Thompson-Shuswap region in Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s 2007 novel, Turtle Valley. The author’s latest book is set in the same landscape, but this time ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

By Russell A. Potter

For most people, the announcement in 2014 by then prime minister Stephen Harper that a Parks Canada–led expedition to the Canadian Arctic had discovered the wreck of the HMS Erebus, one of the two ships ... Read More »

July 12, 2016 | Filed under: History

America at War with Itself

By Henry A. Giroux

A front-page article in the May 29, 2016, edition of The New York Times features the headline, “Rise of Trump Tracks Debate Over Fascism.” The article, by Peter Baker, examines the unlikely political trajectory of ... Read More »

July 12, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age

By Elizabeth Groeneveld

In Making Feminist Media, Elizabeth Groeneveld, currently assistant professor in the women’s studies department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, investigates the magazines that defined feminism of the 1990s. From third-wave publications like Bitch, ... Read More »

July 11, 2016 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Politics & Current Affairs

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