Reviews

Stolen Sisters: The Story of Two Missing Girls, Their Families and How Canada Has Failed Indigenous Women

By Emmanuelle Walter; Christelle Morelli (trans.); Susan Ouriou (trans.)

The title of Stolen Sisters, the Governor General’s Literary Award–nominated translation of last year’s Sœurs volées, refers to two Amnesty International reports – 2004’s Stolen Sisters, and 2009’s No More Stolen Sisters. Debut author Emmanuelle ... Read More »

November 26, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Shadows We Mistake for Love

By Tom Wayman

Near the end of “Green Hell,” the second of 14 stories in Tom Wayman’s wonderful new collection (all set in the West Kootenay region of B.C.’s Slocan Valley), Billy, the lone occupant of a table ... Read More »

November 23, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Night Moves

By Richard Van Camp

Fort Smith, in the Northwest Territories, and its fictional counterpart Fort Simmer, familiar to readers of Richard Van Camp, form the backdrop for the Dogrib First Nation author’s latest short-story collection. This group of 11 ... Read More »

November 19, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration

By Kim Anderson (ed.); Robert Alexander Innes (ed.)

Many activists, writers, and communities are addressing the nexus of race, sexuality, and gender, and the ways these things combine to form a person’s identity. Indigenous Men and Masculinities accomplishes this by discussing aboriginal masculinity ... Read More »

November 17, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

Careen

By Carolyn Smart

At first glance, the seventh collection from Carolyn Smart and the highly anticipated new work of conceptual poetry from Christian Bök share little in common. The former is a suite of narrative poems that retell ... Read More »

November 17, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The Xenotext: Book I

By Christian Bök

November 17, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Heyday

By Marnie Woodrow

With Heyday, novelist and playwright Marnie Woodrow has deftly threaded two parallel narratives from very different time periods. The contemporary half of her story ambitiously relies on the inner thoughts of Joss, a recovering alcoholic ... Read More »

November 16, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-first Year

By Ian Brown

At 50, we can indulge the fiction that we are still middle-aged. By 60, that’s impossible, unless delusion prevails. Toronto writer Ian Brown is the opposite of delusional as he records the events of his ... Read More »

November 12, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Pauls

By Jess Taylor

In Pauls, the first short-fiction collection by National Magazine Award–winning Toronto writer Jess Taylor, a lot of bad things happen to people named Paul. And friends of people named Paul. Each story contains, sometimes rather ... Read More »

November 12, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Between the Cracks She Fell

By Lisa de Nikolits

Lisa de Nikolits announces her ambition on the first page of her fifth novel, name-checking Gibreel Farishta, one of the main characters in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. Following the loss of her “house to ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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