Reviews

★ Tainna: The Unseen Ones

As readers, we are accustomed to thematic collections of short fiction, everything from Christmas stories to detective stories featuring cats to stories inspired by a Rush album. These collections, though, are generally multi-author anthologies. In ... Read More »

March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea: How I Kicked the Shit Out of All My Addictions

By Alex Wood

Most people have something they fantasize about quitting (or at least cutting back on). While these desires to change sometimes have a basis in our health, whether bodily or financial – those weekly stress-relieving trips ... Read More »

March 18, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Charity

By Keath Fraser

Is there a more misunderstood or neglected literary form than the novella? Even more than poetry or short fiction, the novella tends to get overlooked by readers and publishers alike, neither seeming to know quite ... Read More »

March 15, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Girls Are All So Nice Here

By Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Ambrosia Wellington, the protagonist of Laurie Elizabeth Flynn’s first thriller for adult readers, discovers that packing away her high-school identity before college isn’t as easy as changing her style of jeans. An aspiring actor, Ambrosia ... Read More »

March 11, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy

By Gary Barwin

Can one write a humorous book that grapples with the Holocaust? Gary Barwin has the chutzpah to pull it off, for the most part, in his second novel. Readers who enjoyed the verbal pyrotechnics and ... Read More »

March 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin

By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Scholar, writer, and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg of Alderville First Nation) offers her distinctive Nishnaabeg storytelling in this year’s instalment of the Kreisel Lecture Series, entitled A Short History of the Blockade. ... Read More »

March 4, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

A Brief View from the Coastal Suite

By Karen Hofmann

Karen Hofmann’s novels deserve a place on the shelves of discerning readers across the country. Her 2014 debut, After Alice, was a gorgeous evocation of the Okanagan Valley, which she followed with 2017’s What Is ... Read More »

March 4, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Begin by Telling

By Meg Remy

“I wish I could tell my teenage self ... not to worry what other people think,” say a multitude of voices in a poem-like interlude on Heavy Light, the seventh album from Meg Remy, a.k.a. ... Read More »

March 1, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Return of the Trickster

By Eden Robinson

Spiritual beings, extraordinary powers, and jokes about Frozen are unleashed with abandon in the third and final instalment of Eden Robinson’s groundbreaking Trickster saga. After the first books dawdled through the set-up, this book gleefully ... Read More »

March 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression, and Resilience

By Mark Henick

At 12 years old, Mark Henick knew he had mental-health issues: anxiety, depression, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts. At 15, he tried to kill himself. For those familiar with Henick’s wildly popular 2013 TEDx Talk, the ... Read More »

February 25, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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