Reviews

Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations

In 2014, the United Nations sponsored a touring exhibit titled “When You Listen to a Witness, You Become a Witness.” The photographs and accompanying text comprised profiles and accounts of Holocaust survivors intended to educate ... Read More »

September 17, 2015 | Filed under: History

★ The Heart Goes Last

By Margaret Atwood

As one might expect, given her recent MaddAddam trilogy – and, of course, The Handmaid’s Tale – the near-future as imagined by Margaret Atwood in The Heart Goes Last is bleak indeed. Following a “big ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sistering

By Jennifer Quist

Jennifer Quist won the 2014 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award for her first novel, Love Letters of the Angels of Death. Her follow-up, Sistering, explores the complex relationships of five sisters who are ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Light Years

By Caroline Woodward

When we embark on dream-chasing, life-altering decisions, we often look for signs and signals to guide us on our way. We imbue the smallest things with meaning, giving our choices purpose, attempting to prove, despite ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Mouthquake

By Daniel Allen Cox

Daniel Allen Cox’s fourth novel, Mouthquake, is his most assured and accomplished to date. It opens on an anonymous young boy in Montreal who speaks with a stutter, conceives of himself as a German shepherd, ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Meadowlark

By Wendi Stewart

Bildungsroman are meant to offer readers an acceleration of personal development, beginning at a critical turning point in the central character’s young life and continuing to the elusive moment at which they greet adulthood. For ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Truffaut Notebook

By Sam Solecki

There is a spectre haunting retired University of Toronto English professor Sam Solecki’s new book about François Truffaut – the spectre of Jean-Luc Godard. Solecki is not the first critic to contrast the twin figureheads ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption

By Brian Gorman

MacEwan University assistant professor of communication Brian Gorman argues that the Internet and the 2008 economic downturn had deleterious effects on ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fugitives

By Lise Gauvin; Jonathan Kaplansky trans.

It’s a cliché that the nuances of a written work can be lost in translation; what’s distressing in Canada is how many worthy works are lost without it. New English-language editions of story collections by ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short