Reviews

★ Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

New books by Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt expertly navigate the experience of coming into their respective authors’ identities as Black women. For Martis, finding a community amid isolation slowly strengthens her. For McWatt, the ... Read More »

May 25, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

By Eternity Martis

May 25, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

All I Ask

By Eva Crocker

Who among us can honestly say they’d be free of fear or embarrassment if their phone and laptop were seized and scrutinized by law enforcement? Such is the anxiety-plagued situation of Stacey Power, the protagonist ... Read More »

May 21, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Stay Where I Can See You

By Katrina Onstad

Gwen Kaplan is a content, loving, maybe even slightly smug suburban stay-at-home mom of two. She is devoted to her children and husband and comfortable with her modest, unassuming life. When she wins close to ... Read More »

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

Where the Waters Meet

By Stéphanie Boulay; Ghislaine LeFranc (trans.)

A shifting, nebulous sense of identity sits at the heart of this dense, metaphoric novella by French-Canadian author Stéphanie Boulay. Set in what we can assume are the wilds of rural Quebec, Where the Waters ... Read More »

May 7, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down the Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose

By Karin Wells

Not many Canadians remember – or ever knew – the story of the Abortion Caravan, a group of women who drove from Vancouver to Ottawa in the spring of 1970 to challenge Canada’s abortion laws. ... Read More »

May 4, 2020 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Umma’s Table

By Yeon-Sik Hong; Janet Hong (trans.)

How our way of life and health are interconnected with those of our children and parents is of particular interest in this season of global pandemic. In a translation by Vancouver writer Janet Hong, Korean ... Read More »

May 4, 2020 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

★ Roguelike

By Mathew Henderson

The best poetry combines robust language use and meaning, not one at the expense of the other. Roguelike, the sophomore collection from Toronto poet Mathew Henderson, delivers both. According to the book’s publisher, Roguelike combines ... Read More »

April 27, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Swoon

By Elana Wolff

April 27, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde

By Julie S. Lalonde

There are certain strains of cannabis, which, when vaped, stretch the experience of time to include the distant past, so that one feels they have relived entire lives in an action as brief as washing ... Read More »

April 23, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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