Reviews

The Diamond House

How does one measure the worth of a life? By deeds done or money earned? The number of family and friends one holds close? Years lived? And how do these measurements differ when applied to ... Read More »

July 9, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Speechless

By Anne Simpson

A novel about a white woman claiming to speak for a Black woman comes burdened with the pre-existing trope of the “white saviour complex,” a belief system rooted in colonization’s “civilizing” efforts of trade, religion, ... Read More »

July 6, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?: Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk

By James Wilt

“Today everyone who values cities is disturbed by automobiles,” wrote Jane Jacobs in her 1961 classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities. “At present public transportation languishes, but not from a lack of ... Read More »

June 18, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

★ On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space, and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia

By Jean Barman

Jean Barman has written about the history of B.C. for more than 30 years and has won multiple awards, but fans of her work have had to track down her shorter essays in individual journals. ... Read More »

June 15, 2020 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Cult Life

By Kyeren Regehr

In her second book of poetry, Kingston, Ontario, writer Sadiqa de Meijer crafts pieces that examine maternity. The Outer Wards disputes conventional notions of maternal instinct, instead conceiving of motherhood as a self one consciously ... Read More »

June 11, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The Outer Wards

By Sadiqa de Meijer

June 11, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Last Impressions

By Joseph Kertes

In this tender tragicomic novel, Joseph Kertes plumbs themes that have obsessed him throughout his career. How does a family come to terms with a traumatic history that feels too painful to talk about? Can ... Read More »

June 8, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Index Cards

By Moyra Davey

A collection of 14 essays, many of them extensions of pieces that originally involved other media, along with several reproductions of photographs, Index Cards is a frequently fascinating, if ultimately exhausting, survey of Toronto-born, New ... Read More »

June 8, 2020 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

By Sandra B. Tooze

When it comes to questions of provenance, who wrote Shakespeare’s plays and who wrote the Band’s songs are a couple of oldies but goodies. Famed literary critic Harold Bloom spent his life highly invested in ... Read More »

June 1, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Before the Parade: A History of Halifax’s Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities 1972–1984

By Rebecca Rose

“Though we never met, in many ways Anne Fulton is the reason I am writing this book.” That is the opening of the preface for this thorough and intimate history of the first 12 years ... Read More »

May 28, 2020 | Filed under: History, Reviews

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