Reviews

★ In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times

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

A Quiet Disappearance

By Rabindranath Maharaj

Leila Marshy’s collection of stories, My Thievery of the People, is full of incisive political commentary on people and how we interact with and hide from each other. In this new collection, the story settings ... Read More »

June 25, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

My Thievery of the People

By Leila Marshy

June 25, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

What to Feel, How to Feel: Lyric Essays on Neurodivergence and Neurofatherhood

By Shane Neilson

In the early 1940s, an anonymous patron commissioned Anaïs Nin and several of her literary chums to write erotica for a dollar a page. This man, who Nin referred to as The Collector, gave ... Read More »

June 18, 2025 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Endling

By Maria Reva

A malacologist, a bride, an interpreter, and a bride buyer meet on a romance tour on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is not the set-up to an off-colour joke told ... Read More »

June 11, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Here

By Heidi Wicks

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

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