Reviews

Arboreality

A self-described “writer of weird stories and climate-change fiction” (who “really like[s] ghosts, parasites, and A.I.s” too), Rebecca Campbell explores what-if scenarios that appear fantastical at a glance. Upon closer inspection, though, the Windsor, Ontario, ... Read More »

August 3, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Passengers

By Michael Crummey

“A hundred feet of line is as far / as we ever manage to travel / from our selves,” declares the speaker in “Tranströmer on Signal Hill,” the second poem in Michael Crummey’s Passengers. The ... Read More »

July 27, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Good Girl

By Anna Fitzpatrick

Any novel billed as “Secretary meets Fleabag” will make a certain demographic of readers consider whether it is truly a book for them – namely, those of us who wear sensible shoes and go to ... Read More »

July 13, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Immoral, Indecent, and Scurrilous: The Making of an Unrepentant Sex Radical

By Gerald Hannon

“I keep few secrets,” writes activist and journalist Gerald Hannon. This proves true in his frank and refreshing memoir, Immoral, Indecent, and Scurrilous: The Making of an Unrepentant Sex Radical. A titan of Canadian queer ... Read More »

July 6, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Finding Edward

By Sheila Murray

Sheila Murray’s debut novel, Finding Edward, chronicles the story of Cyril Rowntree, a twentysomething international student who arrives in Toronto from a small village in Jamaica heavy with responsibility and grief from the loss of ... Read More »

June 29, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay

By Merilyn Simonds

Anyone who has studied Canadian history has likely seen a photograph of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, even if unknowingly. She’s crouching in the background in one of the most famous images of the infant Dionne ... Read More »

June 21, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf

By Sina Queyras

Each chapter of Sina Queyras’s Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf opens by revisiting the corresponding chapter of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. For example: But, you may say, we asked you to speak about ... Read More »

June 15, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The Longbow, the Schooner and the Violin: Wood and Human Achievement

By Marq de Villiers

Through the vision of journalist and author Marq de Villiers, you can see the forest for the trees. The natural history of forests and the complex interrelationship between humanity, trees, and wood are the focus ... Read More »

June 8, 2022 | Filed under: Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

The Cine Star Salon

By Leah Ranada

Upon entering the world of The Cine Star Salon – Leah Ranada’s dazzling debut novel – the reader is introduced to Sophia, a Philippines-born Vancouverite, as she attempts to balance the books of her newly ... Read More »

May 25, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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