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 »
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
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
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
Vultures feeding on human bodies as they float down the Magdalena River in Colombia is an image shudder-inducing enough to be memorable had it occurred just once in the new book by Wade Davis, but ... Read More »
December 17, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences
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
Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s Fighting for a Hand to Hold explores how a policy in Quebec disallowing Indigenous parents to accompany their sick children on medevac flights resulted in significant, actively constructed barriers to care. These barriers ... Read More »
December 14, 2020 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
At first it seems like a mistake, or a moment of authorial laziness. The opening sentences in Annabel Lyon’s third novel for adults contain what appears to be a series of unconscious repetitions: “The baby ... Read More »
December 10, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended everything we know. Isolation, fear, and confusion reign; for many, the world no longer makes any sense. Journalist Ethan Lou’s non-fiction debut serves as one possible map for this fog ... Read More »
December 10, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a queer mixed Arab poet working out of Montreal. Their work to date has sought to open up explorations of queerness, family, culture, and diaspora, and of the strange process ... Read More »
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