Reviews

Black Apple

The shameful legacy of Canada’s residential school system, the church-run educational regime that forcibly plucked First Nations children from their homes in a effort to compel their assimilation into mainstream (meaning European) culture, has been ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cold Fire: Kennedy’s Northern Front

By John Boyko

Reviewing John Boyko’s 2013 volume, Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation, I was struck by how deftly the author explained Canada’s involvement in the U.S. conflict, and ... Read More »

February 16, 2016 | Filed under: History

The Crooked Heart of Mercy

By Billie Livingston

We’ll survive. That’s what we do.” Such is the central sentiment of Billie Livingston’s fourth novel, a sombre yet striking story of a small group of damaged characters connected by their efforts to endure, through ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Bad Things Happen

By Kris Bertin

An armchair profiler challenge based on the acknowledgments page in the debut story collection by Kris Bertin, a Haligonian bartender: We are presented with the fact that the stories were written when Bertin was between ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Human Rights in Canada: A History

By Dominique Clément

If Canadian history were a rug, it would be marred by large lumps from the many less-than-wholesome subjects that have been swept underneath. Unafraid to peer under the rug at those unmentionable topics is Dominique ... Read More »

February 1, 2016 | Filed under: History

By Chance Alone

By Max Eisen

For the better part of 30 years, Holocaust survivor Max Eisen has been on a mission to educate people through volunteer speaking engagements. Sharing his first-hand experiences of the year he was incarcerated in Nazi ... Read More »

February 1, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Measure of Darkness

By Liam Durcan

There comes a time when everyone must undertake an accounting of all they’ve accomplished, for good or ill, in their personal and professional lives. Usually this happens around middle age, when we can no longer ... Read More »

February 1, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat

By Marta Zaraska

“To publicly make the observation that meat is murder,” writes avowed animal-rights advocate Morrissey in his autobiography, “is, in fact, to claim that the law is wrong. It is also to suggest that all British ... Read More »

January 26, 2016 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Health & Self-help

Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)

By Ray Robertson

Biographies of musicians are often indistinguishable from extended fan letters, so it’s always nice when authors are upfront about their enthusiasms. In the introduction to his new essay collection, Lives of the Poets (with Guitars), ... Read More »

January 26, 2016 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

You can’t bury them all

By Patrick Woodcock

Canadian poet Patrick Woodcock has spent much of his life as an expatriate in diverse countries that include Poland, Iceland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Colombia. In his new collection, the poet ... Read More »

January 26, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

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