Reviews

The Next Supper: The End of  Restaurants as We Knew Them,  and What Comes After

It’s been challenging to read during this global pandemic; I’ve lost my attention span for anything beyond a long-form essay or some short stories, so when I was asked to review two books about “the ... Read More »

January 4, 2022 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ This Is How I Disappear

By Mirion Malle; Aleshia Jensen  and Bronwyn Haslam (trans.)

On the heels of her English-language nonfiction debut for young people – The League of Super Feminists, released last year – comes Mirion Malle’s resonant graphic fiction debut, also published by Montreal’s Drawn & Quarterly. ... Read More »

December 15, 2021 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

A Good Name

By Yejide Kilanko

Yejide Kilanko’s intimate cross-section of a marriage in A Good Name not only investigates cultural expectations and familial duties but also homes in on the realities of immigrant life in America. After 12 gruelling years ... Read More »

December 13, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Permanent Astonishment

By Tomson Highway

The winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Permanent Astonishment is playwright and novelist Tomson Highway’s brilliant, funny, beautiful account of his childhood in both Canada’s remote North and at the Guy ... Read More »

December 7, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Spílǝxm: A Weaving of Recovery,  Resilience, and Resurgence

By Nicola I. Campbell

Spílǝxm takes the painful threads of one Indigenous woman’s story and weaves them into a vibrant sash. Part poetry and part prose, this challenging and experimental work intimately describes the journey of Nicola I. Campbell ... Read More »

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

This Strange Visible Air: Essays on Aging and the Writing Life

By Sharon Butala

Sharon Butala bookends her new essay collection with ruminations on the plight of the elderly in contemporary society. Railing against ageism in the opening essay, Butala laments that in the industrialized West of the 21st ... Read More »

November 29, 2021 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Last Tide

By Andy Zuliani

Satellite views, surveillance technology, a “pixelating smudge,” the “vacuum of industrial deserts”: in the engrossing (and dialogue-free) opening chapter of his debut novel, Vancouver-based Andy Zuliani builds a memorably foreboding atmosphere using science-fiction tropes. City-dwelling ... Read More »

November 9, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

By Adam Shoalts

Adam Shoalts’s latest book, ominously entitled The Whisper on the Night Wind, begins matter-of-factly with the author uncovering tales about a monster that once stalked the Melville Lake region of Labrador – in particular, the ... Read More »

November 3, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

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