Reviews

Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology

By Ian Thomas Shaw and Tim Niedermann (eds.)

The future. Since at least the publication of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine in 1895, it’s always right over there. That’s true for me, absolutely. I grew up with space-age Tang – flavour crystals that astronauts mixed ... Read More »

April 9, 2025 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Elegy for Opportunity

By Natalie Lim

Elegy for Opportunity has that unwilling-to-be-embarrassed, declarative quality many debuts possess, an earnestness that hasn’t been spoiled by over-crafting or listening too closely to the demands of CanLit. It’s a (presumably?) millennial poet’s first urgent ... Read More »

April 2, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Re: Wild Her

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Shannon Webb-Campbell’s latest poetry collection, Re:Wild Her, is inhabited by an otherworldly narrator – part mystic, part pagan, part cool auntie, part It girl, all the way feminist goddess. The dedication itself indicates the ... Read More »

March 26, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ The Inferno

By Lorna Goodison (trans.); Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century narrative poem The Inferno has been praised and loved, adapted and parodied in countless translations over the centuries. For two decades, Jamaican-Canadian poet Lorna Goodison engaged with the cantos of this epic ... Read More »

March 19, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ I Remember Lights

By Ben Ladouceur

Hello, gorgeous. Barbra Streisand’s iconic line, as Fanny Brice, captured during the filming of Funny Girl in late 1967, has all sorts of uses. Unbidden, the line came to me as I pored over the ... Read More »

March 12, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Flesh

By David Szalay

“There’s something terrible about the way normality asserts itself.” The statement, placed in the close third-person consciousness of István, the protagonist of Montreal-born David Szalay’s latest novel, could serve as a thesis for the entire ... Read More »

March 5, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Mother: A Graphic Memoir

By Rachel Deutsch

Rachel Deutsch had always wanted a baby, and she had a pragmatic approach to having one – find a partner, improve herself, and become a mother before she got “old.” Although seemingly simple, her new ... Read More »

February 26, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy

By Ronald J. Deibert

“If you own a device and connect to a cellular service anywhere in the world, you’re trackable.” That’s the sobering assessment of Ronald J. Deibert, someone who knows whereof he speaks. As the founder and ... Read More »

February 5, 2025 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Playing Hard: A Life and Death in Games, Sports, and Play

By Peter Unwin

During his final days, Peter Unwin’s father talked a great deal about sports. Through an oxygen mask, one eye blind from a stroke, he told stories about “the buffoonery of men, brave but foolish men ... Read More »

January 29, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

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