The diaries of Canada’s 10th prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, have been used to analyze Canada at a critical time in its history, as well as his own politics and personal life. Neville Thompson, ... Read More »
A deeply considered life might be laid out as a map, or a series of markings meant to keep record; White Coal City is a memoir made up of many significant moments, historical details, and ... Read More »
February 18, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
In January 1993, Denise Davy met a woman whose brief acquaintance would shape the next two-and-a-half decades of her life. Davy, then a reporter for the Hamilton Spectator, was spending the night at a shelter ... Read More »
The debut novel by Brampton, Ontario, author Jael Richardson – founder of the Festival of Literary Diversity and author of the memoir The Stone Thrower – is an outstanding and fearless story that follows a ... Read More »
February 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Pasha Malla’s third novel opens with a love letter in which the unnamed narrator expresses his undying affection for the “remarkable institution” that is the local mall. He is applying for a residency program at ... Read More »
February 4, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Malmuria Grant-Patel has come to rural Nova Scotia to investigate the mystery of Mercy Lake. A podcaster and short-story writer, Mal believes that if she is able to get to the bottom of what happened ... Read More »
February 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Tawhida Tanya Evanson’s first novel is a stunning testament to how the grief of heartbreak can bring us back to who we are. At the core of the story, the protagonist Maya yearns for her ... Read More »
February 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
With a very unusual follow-up season now in the books, there is something even more nostalgic and moving about reliving the Toronto Raptors’ unlikely path to championship glory. In We the North, the Toronto Star’s ... Read More »
January 28, 2021 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help
Indo-Guyanese Canadian Natasha Ramoutar’s debut collection of poems charts paths through diasporas and ends in a celebratory uplifting of Toronto suburb Scarborough, the final destination on this journey. With an especially skilled use of internal ... Read More »
Ask any historian of Canadian literature to name the country’s first literary agent and the response you’ll likely get is Matie Molinaro. Founder of the Canadian Speakers’ and Writers’ Service, the Toronto-based Molinaro was at ... Read More »
January 21, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
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