Reviews

Compulsive Acts: Essays, Interviews, Reflections on the Works of Sky Gilbert

Sky Gilbert is arguably one of the most famous – or infamous – theatre artists in Canada. A playwright and director, Gilbert is best known for his avant-garde theatrical works, produced over a lengthy career ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Innocence on Trial: The Framing of Ivan Henry

By Joan McEwen

On November 28, 2014, an Ontario Superior Court withdrew a murder charge against Leighton Hay, who had spent the previous 12 years behind bars for a crime that, it turns out, he didn’t commit. According ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography

Harold Town

By Iris Nowell

Harold Barling Town, Canada’s “enfant terrible” over the course of an artistic career that spanned the 1950s to the ’80s, was a celebrity in his day. A compulsively prolific artist with a theatrical, over-the-top personality, ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Knife Party at the Hotel Europa

By Mark Anthony Jarman

It’s unfortunate, but the qualities that make Mark Anthony Jarman the most interesting, if not the best, short-story writer in Canada today – in particular his unorthodox, experimental approach to style and form – are ... Read More »

February 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Evening Chorus

By Helen Humphreys

"There is nothing natural about a human being,” admits Rose Hunter, one of three central characters in Helen Humphreys’ latest novel. Set in the wartime England of The Lost Garden (2002) and Coventry (2008), and ... Read More »

February 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

If I Fall, If I Die

By Michael Christie

The grim industrial waterfront of Thunder Bay, Ontario, is the setting for the debut novel by B.C.-based author Michael Christie. This atmospheric work of gritty realism explores themes of class mobility, self-determination, and the impact ... Read More »

January 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Cover Before Striking

By Priscila Uppal

Toronto poet, playwright, and fiction writer Priscila Uppal has the kind of wild imagination that constantly makes me think she might lose control in her stories, but she doesn’t. Instead, these 13 pieces – previously ... Read More »

January 19, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Come Rain, Come Shine: The Last Poems of Raymond Souster

By Raymond Souster

Raymond Souster’s earliest published poems appeared in various Toronto newspapers when he was a teenager, and his first solo book came out in 1946. He won the Governor General’s Award for poetry and drama (as ... Read More »

January 15, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

The Devil You Know

By Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Violence against women as it is typically portrayed in novels, TV series, and movies involves an intrusion of the pathological upon otherwise safe lives. In these fictional scenarios, teams of helpful, well-trained police officers work ... Read More »

January 12, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Deep

By Nick Cutter

Following up his sensational 2014 debut thriller, The Troop, was never going to be easy for Nick Cutter. But the author shows no lack of ambition in The Deep, another spectacular journey into the extremes ... Read More »

January 8, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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