Reviews

Smoke

Contemporary novels heralded as “Dickensian” are usually so only superficially: they’re just long books with multiple plots and a sprinkling of grotesque or quirky characters. Only rarely do they capture the other qualities that earned ... Read More »

May 9, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Mercy Journals

By Claudia Casper

We have seen the sort of world depicted in Claudia Casper’s new novel before: a near-future dystopia, wracked in the wake of a global war and an environmental cataclysm, with governments driven to extreme measures ... Read More »

May 9, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

This Marlowe

By Michelle Butler Hallett

The fourth novel by St. John’s author Michelle Butler Hallett is a fictional account of the months leading up to playwright Christopher Marlowe’s untimely death in 1593. The mysterious circumstances of Marlowe’s demise, historical evidence ... Read More »

May 9, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Epiphany: A Christian’s Change of Heart and Mind Over Same-sex Marriage

By Michael Coren

It’s often been observed that we grow more conservative and fixed in our opinions as we age. All the more remarkable, then, is author and broadcaster Michael Coren’s “conversion on the road to the rainbow”: ... Read More »

May 3, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Precious Cargo: My Year Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077

By Craig Davidson

In the summer of 2008, Craig Davidson was at a low point in his life. Having been hailed as “one to watch” thanks to his debut short-story collection, Rust and Bone, expectations were high for ... Read More »

May 3, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution

By Carmen Aguirre

There are few of us whose adult selves are not heavily influenced by our childhoods. All the embarrassing, sad, happy, or frightening personal actions and events we remember, retell, dismiss, or suppress, greatly determine the ... Read More »

April 28, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Yiddish for Pirates

By Gary Barwin

Among the cascading absurdities, ironies, and japeries that attach to Gary Barwin’s debut novel for adults, the most outrageous has nothing to do with the book’s content. It concerns the fact that Barwin – a ... Read More »

April 25, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Change Up: How to Make the Great Game of Baseball Even Better

By Buck Martinez; Dan Robson

Buck Martinez thinks baseball is broken. That, of course, doesn’t mean the veteran player and current Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer doesn’t love the game dearly – only that he has some recommendations to make ... Read More »

April 18, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Inside The Mental: Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD

By Kay Parley

After suffering a breakdown in 1948, Kay Parley was placed in Saskatchewan’s Weyburn Mental Hospital, known colloquially as “the Mental.” Nine months later, her illness never properly diagnosed but under control, she was released. While ... Read More »

April 14, 2016 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography

The Naturalist

By Alissa York

In the recent film The Revenant, set in the Montana wilderness of the early 1800s, it is hard to distinguish the trappers in their bear coats and patched skins from the wild creatures around them. ... Read More »

April 13, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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