Reviews

★ Titan

Old energy sources have become unsustainable. An alienated workforce agitates for systemic change. New technologies are manipulated to nefarious ends. And a world can no longer bear its own government’s kleptocracy. Science fiction is often ... Read More »

November 5, 2020 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

Blood in the Water: A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes

By Silver Donald Cameron

Scofflaw Phillip Boudreau of Isle Madame, off the southeast coast of Cape Breton, was the kind of guy who would threaten to burn down your house if he had a grudge. He’d steal your lobsters, ... Read More »

November 2, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

A Russian Sister

By Caroline Adderson

When The Seagull premiered in St. Petersburg on October 17, 1896, it was received so poorly playwright Anton Chekhov is reported to have fled the theatre to escape the boos and hisses that greeted the ... Read More »

October 29, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Book of Donair: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Halifax Food That Became Canada’s Favourite Kebab

By Lindsay Wickstrom

In Newfoundland, tourists kiss the cod to become honorary citizens. In Paris, generations of lovers have chained padlocks onto the Pont des Arts as a sign of their everlasting affections. Although Nova Scotia may be ... Read More »

October 26, 2020 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Reviews

Daughter of Here

By Ioana Georgescu; Katia Grubisic (trans.)

The French title of Ioana Georgescu’s third novel is La jetée. Elle s’appellera Mo. This translates roughly as “The pier. She will be called Mo.” Film buffs will recognize the nod to Chris Marker’s 1962 ... Read More »

October 22, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Occidental Hotel

By John Bentley Mays

The essay by author Antanas Sileika that opens the late John Bentley Mays’s previously unpublished final novel, The Occidental Hotel, is bracingly upfront in managing a reader’s expectations. “I cautioned John that many Canadian readers ... Read More »

October 19, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Like a Bird

By Fariha Róisín

“Truth is what you’ve experienced. It’s what you know.” So says Taylia Chatterjee, the first-person narrator of Australian-Canadian author Fariha Róisín’s debut novel. Taylia voices what has become a staple of postmodern, therapy-inspired philosophy: truth ... Read More »

October 15, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto’s Queer Community

By Justin Ling

Toronto’s Bruce McArthur was a regular feature in the city’s gay village. He regularly met other local men for purposes of intimacy. When circumstances permitted, he also strangled them to death. The circuitous manhunt that ... Read More »

October 8, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Talking to a Portrait: Tales of an Art Curator

By Rosalind M. Pepall

When Rosalind M. Pepall began her career as a curator more than 30 years ago, her job title had a very specific institutional meaning. Curating was a specialized profession requiring a graduate degree and was ... Read More »

October 5, 2020 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Reviews

Cam & Beau

By Maria Cichosz

Maria Cichosz’s debut novel – the first in a projected series – brims with theory and tension. Cam and Beau are long-time best friends and roommates living in Toronto at the beginning of the 21st ... Read More »

October 5, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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