Reviews

Rich and Poor

Over the few days in March I spent reading Jacob Wren’s new novel, the so-called “one per cent” were in the headlines a lot: billionaire blowhard Donald Trump had all but sewn up the Republican ... Read More »

May 31, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Moguls, Monsters and Madmen: An Uncensored Life in Show Business

By Barry Avrich

Considering that Barry Avrich’s book about his life in marketing and documentary movie-making presents itself as the story of “a kid from Montreal who has nothing extraordinary” yet “could have so many dreams come true,” ... Read More »

May 30, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Thirteen Shells

By Nadia Bozak

A stranger who’s read the nation’s coming-of-age fiction but never stepped foot in Canada could easily be pushed to exclaim, “What the hell happened there?” If bygone Anne of Avonlea’s biggest adolescent mishap involved dyed ... Read More »

May 26, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ballad of Danny Wolfe: Life of a Modern Outlaw

By Joe Friesen

If a ballad begins with the birth of its central figure – think Davey Crockett on a mountaintop in Tennessee – where does that leave this account of Danny Wolfe, born in Regina, three months ... Read More »

May 25, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Worldly Goods

By Alice Petersen

From the first story in Alice Petersen’s sophomore collection, you know you are in the hands of a writer possessed of stellar skills. Worldly Goods is a multi-faceted diamond: its carbon base is the stuff ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Most Heartless Town in Canada

By Elaine McCluskey

Rita Van Loon and Hubert Hansen, former residents of the fictional Nova Scotia town of Myrtle, share the job of narrating Elaine McCluskey’s offbeat second novel, and they have things they would like to get ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight

By Katherine Holstein; Maria Toorpakai

Maria Toorpakai has survived horrors most of her North American readers will never encounter except between the covers of a book: public beatings, confinement, dengue fever, death threats. Born in 1990 in Pakistan’s oppressive northwest ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Torp

By Michael Mirolla

In his new novel, writer and publisher Michael Mirolla uses the 1970 FLQ crisis as the backdrop for a story about two young people caught up in a relationship they cannot control – one of ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Death Valley

By Susan Perly

Susan Perly’s first novel since 2001’s Love Street, Death Valley is a postmodern escapade through America’s nuclear playground. The setting is 2006, in the midst of George W. Bush’s divisive war on terror. The novel ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation

By Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail (ed.)

A selection of personal essays by indigenous and non-indigenous writers, In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation is a call for meaningful reconciliation between colonizers and indigenous people. Edited by author and historian ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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