November 22, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
The Rage Letters is a collection of 13 stories by Quebec-based writer and filmmaker Valérie Bah, translated by Mauritian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist Kama La Mackerel. Originally published in French in 2021 by feminist press Les Éditions ... Read More »
Coming of age as a young woman at any time is both harrowing and darkly funny. Éloïse Marseille has captured the highs and lows of this life stage for readers who grew up in the ... Read More »
November 22, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Anne Michaels’s new novel opens on a battlefield in France in 1917, as John lies wounded in the snow. The dozens of short passages, some as concise as two words (“Memory seeping”), capture John’s experience, ... Read More »
November 15, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
A good biography is like a dollhouse, the kind where you can swing open one side and see the rooms in a sort of cross-section. You can lean back and see how the thing works ... Read More »
November 14, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
What insights emerge when we linger by the ghost light? Whose stories impress us with their significance, and whose spirits speak to us? These are questions that Canadian actor and playwright R.H. Thomson extends to ... Read More »
November 8, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
In the first of a planned two-volume graphic history of the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec), Chris Oliveros, cartoonist and founder of renowned publishing house Drawn & Quarterly, brings to life the many personalities whose ... Read More »
The challenge of a memoir is to captivate the reader through a narrative form that matches function. Sleep is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters with the Uncanny is a shape-shifting account speckled with ghost marks ... Read More »
November 1, 2023 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
There’s something about Monia Mazigh’s Gendered Islamophobia that is reminiscent of texts such as The Communist Manifesto and Witches, Midwives, and Nurses. These works – short and to the point – were intended by their ... Read More »
November 1, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Race & Ethnic Relations
Most people who have experienced pregnancy have likely at some point had a thought, however fleeting, that they wish someone – or something – else could take over for a while and grow their ... Read More »
October 25, 2023 | Filed under: History, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment
Marie-Claire Blais first appeared on the literary landscape fully formed at the age of 20; her debut, La Belle Bête (translated into English as Mad Shadows), caused a furor in her home province of Quebec. ... Read More »
October 18, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews