Reviews

Foregone

Midway through Foregone, the latest novel from Russell Banks, the main character recalls a woman who published a memoir titled My Autobiography as I Remember It. Banks’s protagonist, a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker named Leonard Fife, ... Read More »

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

★ Exhibitionist

By Molly Cross-Blanchard

In their debut collections, Tara Borin and Molly Cross-Blanchard both profess the longing and desire of relationships. While Borin connects their poems’ characters – whether dead or alive, human or animal – with location and ... Read More »

April 8, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ The Pit

By Tara Borin

April 8, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

It Doesn’t Matter What We Meant

By Rob Winger

Rob Winger’s It Doesn’t Matter What We Meant and Evie Christie’s Mere Extinction are the latest contributions to a genre I’m calling GTA pastoral. Each offers lyric meditations on a gritty urban present populated by, ... Read More »

April 5, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Mere Extinction

By Evie Christie

April 5, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Selected Poems, 1983–2020

By Steven Heighton

To say that Steven Heighton has done well for himself over his nearly 40-year career is a bit of an understatement. In both poetry and fiction, Heighton’s rise to royalty in the CanLit world has ... Read More »

April 1, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Iron Goddess of Mercy

By Larissa Lai

Larissa Lai’s latest book is a masterful long poem that spins in and out of chaos and order, charting the movement of the Furies, the three Greco-Roman goddesses of vengeance and retribution. Joy is enjambed ... Read More »

March 29, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ A Number of Stunning Attacks

By Jessi MacEachern

In her debut collection, A Number of Stunning Attacks, Jessi MacEachern creates poetry within individual words and sparse lines. The six poems recall the styles of Nicole Brossard and Anne Michaels in how MacEachern makes ... Read More »

March 25, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The Octopus Has Three Hearts

By Rachel Rose

As readers, we are accustomed to thematic collections of short fiction, everything from Christmas stories to detective stories featuring cats to stories inspired by a Rush album. These collections, though, are generally multi-author anthologies. In ... Read More »

March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews