Reviews

Disintegration in Four Parts

By Devon Code; Emily Anglin; Jean Marc Ah-Sen; Lee Henderson

The novellas that make up Disintegration in Four Parts connect to the concept of purity, which, like this book, defies immediate, steady categorization. Rather than relying upon the theme as a plot device, each of ... Read More »

June 14, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Son of the House

By Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia

The debut novel by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, who splits her time between Halifax and Lagos, is powerful and nuanced feminist fiction. The Son of the House begins when Nwabulu and Julie, two women from different classes ... Read More »

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

Philip Roth: A Counterlife

By Ira Nadel

“That’s one of the biggest things that America gave to the Jews – gave them their anger,” says Murray Ringold in Philip Roth’s 1998 novel I Married a Communist. “America was paradise for angry Jews.” ... Read More »

June 3, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Day for Night

By Jean McNeil

It’s never easy to examine why we love whom we love and what happens when that love changes – or is transferred. Nor is it easy to live with ghosts of any kind hooked over ... Read More »

May 31, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Astra

By Cedar Bowers

At once a character study and a group portrait, Cedar Bowers’s debut novel takes its name from its heroine, Astra Winter Sorrow Brine, born and raised on Celestial Farm, a British Columbian agricultural commune. With ... Read More »

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

The Unconventional Nancy Ruth

By Ramona Lumpkin

Nancy Ruth was 40 when she learned that her maternal grandfather had successfully argued the 1929 Persons Case, affirming that women were “persons” under Canadian law and therefore eligible to serve in its Senate – ... Read More »

May 13, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life

By Ira Wells

Norman Jewison may not be as familiar a name as some, but the films he’s directed are instantly recognizable, among them In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, Moonstruck, and Jesus Christ ... Read More »

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

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