Reviews

Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: Settler Colonialism in Horror

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

★ Rufous and Calliope

By Sarah Louise Butler

Rufous and Calliope, the stunning new novel by West Kootenay, B.C., writer Sarah Louise Butler, begins with a glimpse of the past. On Halloween night, 1979, five siblings in costume are trick-or-treating in a small ... Read More »

August 20, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Longest Night

By Lauren Carter

On a frigid night in December 2020 in rural Minnesota, 18-year-old Ash sneaks out of the house, needing a break from the tension of her parents’ constant fighting. Her grandmother Goma has recently died of ... Read More »

August 13, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times

By James Cairns

In an age of doomscrolling clickbait, atrocity porn, and the three Ts – Trump, tariffs, terror – anyone could be forgiven for concluding the world is in a state of perpetual crisis. Responses to such ... Read More »

July 23, 2025 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, History, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment, Social Sciences