Reviews

★ Here

In “Bubbles,” the first story in Here, the new short story collection (more on that momentarily) from St. John’s, Newfoundland, writer Heidi Wicks, Brenda returns (in a vague disgrace) from working in Montreal to her ... Read More »

June 4, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Muybridge

By Guy Delisle; Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall (trans.)

In his new graphic biography, Muybridge, Quebec cartoonist Guy Delisle delivers a portrait of an unusual man’s very unusual life. Though he never became a household name like his contemporary Thomas Edison (who also ... Read More »

April 30, 2025 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Graphica, History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Tunnel Island

By Bill Gaston

In the first story of Tunnel Island, the new collection of short fiction from Gabriola Island, B.C., writer Bill Gaston, readers are introduced to the titular Gulf Island that forms the setting for the collection. ... Read More »

April 23, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Unravel

By Tolu Oloruntoba

In the notes and attributions to Tolu Oloruntoba’s third collection – a list that includes Albert Camus and Alice Oswald, Ben Okri and John Donne, Christine Miserandino’s spoon theory (about energy allotment in people living ... Read More »

April 16, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction from the Future of Food

By J.J. Dupuis and A.G. Pasquella (eds.)

The future. Since at least the publication of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine in 1895, it’s always right over there. That’s true for me, absolutely. I grew up with space-age Tang – flavour crystals that astronauts mixed ... Read More »

April 9, 2025 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short, Food & Drink, Reviews

Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology

By Ian Thomas Shaw and Tim Niedermann (eds.)

April 9, 2025 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Elegy for Opportunity

By Natalie Lim

Elegy for Opportunity has that unwilling-to-be-embarrassed, declarative quality many debuts possess, an earnestness that hasn’t been spoiled by over-crafting or listening too closely to the demands of CanLit. It’s a (presumably?) millennial poet’s first urgent ... Read More »

April 2, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Re: Wild Her

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Shannon Webb-Campbell’s latest poetry collection, Re:Wild Her, is inhabited by an otherworldly narrator – part mystic, part pagan, part cool auntie, part It girl, all the way feminist goddess. The dedication itself indicates the ... Read More »

March 26, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ The Inferno

By Lorna Goodison (trans.); Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century narrative poem The Inferno has been praised and loved, adapted and parodied in countless translations over the centuries. For two decades, Jamaican-Canadian poet Lorna Goodison engaged with the cantos of this epic ... Read More »

March 19, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

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