Reviews

★ Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

There’s an old joke that goes something like this: How many people do you know who went to Harvard? If you’re not sure, the answer is zero, because anyone who went there will make certain ... Read More »

November 4, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories

By Terese Mason Pierre (ed.)

Ten contemporary Black writers show up boldly on the pages of a new anthology of short fiction, As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories. Traditionally published speculative fiction, with a few exceptions such as ... Read More »

October 8, 2025 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short, Reviews

Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: Settler Colonialism in Horror

By Laura Hall

Even the most ardent fans have a complex relationship with horror. The genre often deals in difficult subject matter, particularly the lived experiences of marginalized and traumatized characters, and opens up darker, and at times ... Read More »

October 1, 2025 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Indigenous Peoples, Media, Reviews

Hemo Sapiens

By Emily A. Weedon

Early in Emily A. Weedon’s Hemo Sapiens, we are introduced to Luke Stockton, a no-nonsense homicide detective trying and failing to balance the impending birth of his first child with an increasingly complicated murder investigation. ... Read More »

September 24, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Still

By Joanna Cockerline

Barely out of her teens, Kayla already has some dark and painful secrets – and she’s far from the only one. In Still, a moving and insightful debut novel about sex work and street life ... Read More »

September 17, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Three Parties

By Ziyad Saadi

Set on a “splendid” June day in 1923, the apparent placidity of Mrs. Dalloway – in which a well-heeled Londoner runs errands in preparation for a dinner party – confounds expectations, thanks to Virginia Woolf’s ... Read More »

September 3, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Property

By Kate Cayley

September 3, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

You’ve Changed

By Ian Williams

“You’ve Changed,” a 1942 song recorded by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Marvin Gaye, and dozens of others, ends with the miserable, if resigned, lines: “No need to tell me that we’re through / It’s all ... Read More »

August 27, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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