Reviews

All That Glitters: A Climber’s Journey through Addiction and Depression

As a child, Margot Talbot frequently got locked out of the house by her mother, ostensibly to “teach her to play outdoors.” This is far from the height of abuse and neglect the young girl ... Read More »

January 21, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Dearly

By Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood captures the tone of her latest collection in the title poem, when she writes, “Don’t think this is morbid. / It’s just reality.” “Dearly” best encapsulates the poet’s musings on time as an ... Read More »

January 18, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Word Problems

By Ian Williams

January 18, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

I Am Ariel Sharon

By Yara El-Ghadban; Wayne Grady (trans.)

In Letters to a Young Novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa writes, “It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.” Palestinian-Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban’s I Am Ariel Sharon both takes and ... Read More »

January 14, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

War: How Conflict Shaped Us

By Margaret MacMillan

War has been, and continues to be, a key element of human history. There is archaeological evidence that we have always used violence both to make gains and defend ourselves. In her new book, War: ... Read More »

January 11, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

★ The Centaur’s Wife

By Amanda Leduc

In her 2020 non-fiction book, Disfigured, writer Amanda Leduc explored the powerful, near-subliminal force of fairy tales, in particular “how the allure and the potency of these stories has continued to influence the perceptions of ... Read More »

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

Natural Killer

By Harriet Alida Lye

Somewhere deep and secret in the body, a cell divides, and then each copy divides again. The growth is exponential, each new generation doubling the one that came before; soon it will be more than ... Read More »

January 4, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

A Family Affair

By Nadine Bismuth; Russell Smith; trans.

Montreal author Nadine Bismuth’s previous works established her ability to artfully pick apart the intricacies of relationships. Notably, her 2009 short-story collection, Êtes-vous mariée à un psychopathe? (which was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary ... Read More »

December 17, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Forgotten Work

By Jason Guriel

Trolling Twitter, I find a quote from poet Kay Ryan on Jason Guriel’s feed: “When I started writing nobody rhymed – it was in utter disrepute. Yet rhyme was a siren to me.” Forgotten Work, ... Read More »

December 14, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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