Reviews

The Other Valley

At first glance, the valley is inviting, deeply so. Verdant with orchards and vineyards that overlook a lake, and situated in a leisurely era before cellphones, Instagram Stories, and overtourism, the unnamed region appears idyllic, ... Read More »

February 21, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Journal

By Marie Uguay; Jennifer Moxley (trans.)

Canadian literature is a multilingual territory, and I will admit that my first introduction to the work and life of French-Canadian poet Marie Uguay comes with the recent publication of her journals in translation. As ... Read More »

February 7, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews

Cold

By Drew Hayden Taylor

Cold, the chilling new thriller from prolific Ojibway writer Drew Hayden Taylor, begins with a plane crash. Journalist Fabiola Halan, one of two passengers in a Cessna piloted by Merle Thompson, is on a press ... Read More »

January 17, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Apparitions

By Adam Pottle

With Apparitions, Saskatoon writer and Deaf awareness advocate Adam Pottle (Voice: Adam Pottle on Writing with Deafness) has crafted perhaps the most unsettling novel of the year, an account of violence and despair, isolation and ... Read More »

December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Beautiful Beautiful

By Brandon Reid

Brandon Reid’s debut novel Beautiful Beautiful centres around 12-year-old Derik Mormin, who is Heiltsuk through his father and English through his mother. After living in the city for all of his life, he is detached ... Read More »

December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Cobra and the Key

By Sam Shelstad

The pitch for an article on “demystifying the writing process” that I received in my email within days of reading The Cobra and the Key was the kind of odd, grandiosely worded missive you might ... Read More »

December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ As the Andes Disappeared

By Caroline Dawson; Anita Anand (trans.)

“Our creative process was born there, in the bottom of garbage cans our parents emptied so that we could sit quietly, observing the world and putting it into words,” writes Caroline Dawson in an autobiographical ... Read More »

December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Green Fuse Burning

By Tiffany Morris

Mystery compounds mystery on the first page of debut novella Green Fuse Burning. Tiffany Morris begins her fiction with a brief introductory essay for an exhibit at Gallery Autochthone, where the final six paintings – ... Read More »

December 6, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border

By Marina Sonkina

Marina Sonkina In Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border, Marina Sonkina renders the impact of Russia’s attack on Ukraine in startling, intimate details: the toothless woman who spent her savings on a pair of dentures, ... Read More »

December 6, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

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