Reviews

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

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

Blue Portugal and Other Essays

By Theresa Kishkan

Early in Tanis MacDonald’s new essay collection, Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female, the author asserts that stories about walking have largely been the domain of a certain kind of writer on a certain kind ... Read More »

May 17, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female

By Tanis MacDonald

May 17, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

★ Mansions of the Moon

By Shyam Selvadurai

After nearly a decade, bestselling author of Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts Shyam Selvadurai returns with a sweeping new novel set in ancient India. It introduces readers to Siddhartha Gotama – the man who ... Read More »

May 11, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ This Is How We Love

By Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore’s latest novel contains all the hallmarks that fans of the St. John’s author have come to expect: tightly constructed chapters that paint vivid images despite their almost minimalist prose; dialogue and turns of ... Read More »

May 4, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Flying, Falling, Catching: An Unlikely Story of Finding Freedom

By Henri J. M. Nouwen and Carolyn Whitney-Brown

Five years before his fatal heart attack in 1996, Dutch theologian, psychologist, and teacher Henri Nouwen’s outlook on life was changed by a trapeze act high up in a circus tent. For Nouwen, the ... Read More »

May 3, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust

By Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer; Gilad Seliktar and Nico and Rolf Kamp; Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel; Charlotte Schallié (ed.)

Never forget. This is the rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement. Yet Holocaust denial is widespread and global anti-Semitism is on the rise. There is an epidemic of both ignorance and disinformation about the ... Read More »

April 27, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ The Quiet in Me

By Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier (intro.)

Editing Patrick Lane’s final book of poetry must have been difficult for his wife, poet Lorna Crozier, but as she says in the introduction, “I turned the editing into a conversation, the final dialogue about ... Read More »

April 26, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

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