Reviews

Sleep is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters with the Uncanny

The challenge of a memoir is to captivate the reader through a narrative form that matches function. Sleep is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters with the Uncanny is a shape-shifting account speckled with ghost marks ... Read More »

November 1, 2023 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey With a Scar(f)

By Monia Mazigh

There’s something about Monia Mazigh’s Gendered Islamophobia that is reminiscent of texts such as The Communist Manifesto and Witches, Midwives, and Nurses. These works – short and to the point – were intended by their ... Read More »

November 1, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Race & Ethnic Relations

Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth

By Claire Horn

Most people who have experienced pregnancy have likely at some point had a thought, however fleeting, that they wish someone – or something – else could take over for a while and grow their ... Read More »

October 25, 2023 | Filed under: History, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Nights Too Short to Dance

By Marie-Claire Blais; Katia Grubisic (trans.)

Marie-Claire Blais first appeared on the literary landscape fully formed at the age of 20; her debut, La Belle Bête (translated into English as Mad Shadows), caused a furor in her home province of Quebec. ... Read More »

October 18, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada’s Greatest Spy

By Jason Bell

In Cracking the Nazi Code, University of New Brunswick professor Jason Bell describes how Canadian Winthrop Bell (no relation) tried to warn the world about the rise of far-right extremism in Germany after the First ... Read More »

October 18, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself

By Rob Goodman

Every Canadian knows the analogy about living next door to the United States: “like sleeping with an elephant,” we are “affected by every twitch and grunt.” The analogy may be well-worn, but the challenge of ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Canada Alone: Navigating the Post-American World

By Kim Richard Nossal

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places

By Christopher Pollon

In a disturbing case of the cure possibly proving as deadly as the disease, Christopher Pollon’s Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places provides an eloquent, clear-eyed warning that, absent a radical ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Adversary

By Michael Crummey

On the acknowledgements page of his gobsmackingly accomplished book The Adversary, Michael Crummey (author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted The Innocents) touches on the “looting and pilfering” that went into the writing of his sixth novel. ... Read More »

October 4, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life

By Maria Coffey

While in her twenties, Maria Coffey endures not one but two life-changing events: a near-drowning in Morocco, and the tragic disappearance of her then-boyfriend, British mountaineer Joe Tasker, on the Northeast Ridge of Everest. Hoping ... Read More »

October 4, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Travel

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