Reviews

★ Householders

The last word in Householders, the affecting new collection of stories from Toronto writer Kate Cayley, is “home” – appropriate for a book that so assiduously interrogates notions of identity and belonging. In it, characters ... Read More »

October 6, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Glorious Frazzled Beings

By Angélique Lalonde

October 6, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Waswanipi

By Jean-Yves Soucy; Peter McCambridge (trans.)

It was 1963 when a young Jean-Yves Soucy, the late Montreal-based writer, publisher, and journalist, arrived by floatplane for a summer job as a fire warden in the thick boreal forest of Waswanipi in central ... Read More »

October 6, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ My Mother, My Translator

By Jaspreet Singh

“My mother fantasized about becoming a writer. So did her father. Their fantasies became mine. Slowly a strong desire took over and ruined me forever,” writes Jaspreet Singh in his memoir, which marks a return ... Read More »

October 6, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door

By Molly Peacock

The subtitle to Molly Peacock’s new book about Edwardian-era painter Mary Hiester Reid suggests this isn’t a typical biography or survey of an artist’s work, and indeed Flower Diary is a refreshing treatment of a ... Read More »

October 5, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language

By Eufemia Fantetti; Leonarda Carranza; Ayelet Tsabari; (eds.)

An anthology of painstakingly crafted essays, Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language explores the complexities of language and how it impacts identity, culture, and lived experience. The editors Leonarda Carranza, Eufemia Fantetti, and Ayelet ... Read More »

September 28, 2021 | Filed under: Anthologies, Reviews

The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour

By Dawn Dumont

“‘It’s some kind of dance troupe?’ ‘The Prairie Chicken dancers.’ ‘What’s a prairie chicken?’ ‘It’s a bird. Sort of a fat little thing.’ ‘Graceful?’ ‘They can’t fly but they sure can shake.’” When we first ... Read More »

September 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Pump

By Sydney Warner Brooman

In their debut short-story collection, Grimsby, Ontario-born writer Sydney Warner Brooman takes us on a twisted journey into a small town where malaise will eat you alive. The swampy landscape of The Pump is true ... Read More »

September 15, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Everything Turns Away

By Michelle Berry

Now that we have enough distance from the early days of the pandemic, it feels instructive to view this global event – and how it has affected us – through the lens of history. The ... Read More »

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

Red X

By David Demchuk

Author and playwright David Demchuk was deeply affected by the murders committed by Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur; he knew one of the victims personally. But what if the disappearances of gay and bisexual men ... Read More »

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

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