Reviews

Trying Again to Stop Time: Selected Poems

By Jalal Barzanji; Sabah A. Salih (trans.)

Kurdish-born Jalal Barzanji prefers to keep his political beliefs separate from his poetry. During the darkness of Saddam Hussein’s despotic regime in Iraq, which included ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Kurds, there was a demand for ... Read More »

April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

My Shoes Are Killing Me

By Robyn Sarah

The title of Robyn Sarah’s My Shoes Are Killing Me speaks to the nostalgia that her poems explore: if “nostalgia” literally means “painful homecoming,” then the “shoes” – read as a metonymy for the past ... Read More »

April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

In Your Crib

By Austin Clarke

Multiculturalism is a myth Canadians like to console themselves with. Politically correct language and bromides about the cultural mosaic notwithstanding, the Great White North does not have a stellar history when it comes to its ... Read More »

April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Daydreams of Angels

By Heather O’Neill

Heather O’Neill – whose first book, Lullabies for Little Criminals, won CBC’s Canada Reads competition in 2007 and whose second, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize – ... Read More »

April 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

At the Water’s Edge

By Sara Gruen

Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants, returns with her fifth novel, a tale of privilege, ambition, romance, and self-discovery set in the Scottish Highlands during the final year of the Second World War. For ... Read More »

March 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Winter Family

By Clifford Jackman

The de-mythologizing of the Wild West in popular culture began with the Italian spaghetti westerns of the 1960s. These movies eschewed the idealized and heroic Hollywood vision of the West and instead emphasized violence, moral ... Read More »

March 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science

By Zoe Cormier

One doesn’t expect a volume entitled Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll to double as a science textbook, but “Guerilla Scientist” Zoe Cormier’s debut attempts a unique twofer: it wants to have its MDMA-laced cake ... Read More »

March 23, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Night Stages

By Jane Urquhart

At the centre of Jane Urquhart’s new novel is Flight and Its Allegories, a mural painted by the Canadian artist Kenneth Lochhead for the airport in Gander, Newfoundland. This picture links the various time frames ... Read More »

March 19, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cauchemar

By Alexandra Grigorescu

A veil between the living and the dead is lifted to chilling effect in Cauchemar, the eerie debut novel by Toronto writer Alexandra Grigorescu. Set at the edge of a swamp in present-day Louisiana, the ... Read More »

March 16, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fatal Glamour: The Life of Rupert Brooke

By Paul Delany

Rupert Brooke is best known for his good looks and his First World War poetry. “The war sonnets,” says Paul Delany, author of a new Brooke biography, “were the most powerful statement, in their time, ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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