Reviews

The Singing Forest

The passage of time can shroud awareness of past horrors. What then happens when an atrocity is unearthed decades after the fact? Judith McCormack’s latest novel, The Singing Forest, confronts this question. Two Belarusian boys ... Read More »

August 17, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

A Womb in the Shape of a Heart: My Story of Miscarriage and Motherhood

By Joanne Gallant

Being human means being made up of countless invisible, uncontrollable processes: muscles contracting, neurons firing, cells dividing. Each of these processes has the potential to go catastrophically wrong, and many of us carry in us ... Read More »

August 11, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The Weight of Sand: My 450 Days Held Hostage in the Sahara

By Edith Blais; Katia Grubisic (trans.)

In December 2018, Canadian Edith Blais vanished. The 34-year-old had been travelling for some time with her Italian companion, Luca Tacchetto, on their way to pursue a volunteer work opportunity in Togo. Then, while driving ... Read More »

August 10, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Feel Ways: A Scarborough Anthology

By Adrian De Leon; Natasha Ramoutar; Téa Mutonji; eds.

In the anthology Changing the Face of Canadian Literature (Guernica Editions), editor Dane Swan discusses the diversity and breadth of Canadian literature, writing in the preface: “Congratulations Canada, you finally have a literature that looks ... Read More »

July 14, 2021 | Filed under: Anthologies, Reviews

Us, Now: Stories from the Quilted Collective

By Ayse Sule Akinturk et al.

July 14, 2021 | Filed under: Anthologies, Reviews

Running Downhill Like Water

By Jane Woods

There’s a line in Marguerite Duras’s The Lover: “It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.” In Jane Woods’s second work of fiction, Running ... Read More »

July 12, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Unlocking

By Amy LeBlanc

Though about 3,000 kilometres and a century apart on the map of Canadian literary places, Amy LeBlanc’s Snowton, Alberta, recalls Stephen Leacock’s Mariposa, Ontario – both little towns sketched with a fondness that’s not shy ... Read More »

July 7, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Hunter and the Old Woman

By Pamela Korgemagi

Where is the line between human and animal, and what happens when that line is blurred – or crossed? In Pamela Korgemagi’s verdant and eerie debut novel, that question is put to the readers over ... Read More »

July 5, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By Dean Jobb

Thomas Neill Cream’s early life was uneventful – born in Scotland in 1850 and raised in Quebec City – and he progressed through medical school at McGill and in Great Britain; he then worked in ... Read More »

June 30, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

★ What Strange Paradise

By Omar El Akkad

What Strange Paradise, the powerful new novel from Omar El Akkad, begins with a stark and disturbingly familiar image: “The child lies on the shore. All around him the beach is littered with the wreckage ... Read More »

June 28, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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