Reviews

Against the Wind

Imagine the comedic possibilities if Oscar Wilde had penned a play about a foursome involving two women both romantically involved with the same two men. Such a play would have been a laugh a minute. ... Read More »

October 28, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Major Misconduct: The Human Cost of Fighting in Hockey

By Jeremy Allingham

Don Cherry, every hockey fan’s favourite bombastic promoter of on-ice fisticuffs, will undoubtedly dislike the thesis of CBC journalist Jeremy Allingham’s new book: to protect players’ brains and to focus more on skills, fighting can ... Read More »

October 28, 2019 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry

By Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme (eds.)

Last summer, Vancouver-based poet Rita Wong was arrested alongside other environmental activists for blocking access to the Trans Mountain pipeline worksite. She received a 28-day prison sentence this August and was released in early September, ... Read More »

October 24, 2019 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Resisting Canada: An Anthology of Poetry

By Nyla Matuk (ed.)

October 24, 2019 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Lampedusa

By Steven Price

Steven Price's Lampedusa, a fictional account of how Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa came to write the classic novel The Leopard, doesn't deal in shocking revelations or major plot twists. In fact, anyone familiar with Tomasi's ... Read More »

October 21, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Murder and Other Essays

By David Adams Richards

“Murder,” David Adams Richards writes in his new work of non-fiction, “is always the same crime. It is always done in fear and rage. It always tries to hide itself and run away, and when ... Read More »

October 21, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Chasing Painted Horses

By Drew Hayden Taylor

Prolific and award-winning Ojibway writer and playwright Drew Hayden Taylor returns with a new novel, his first full-length work of prose fiction for adults since 2010’s Motorcycles and Sweetgrass. One cold morning, a Toronto police ... Read More »

October 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Paper Houses

By Dominique Fortier; Rhonda Mullins (trans.)

The French language makes no distinction between the words for house and home – an inadequacy according to Governor General’s Literary Award–winning writer Dominique Fortier, whose sixth novel, Paper Houses, traces a fictionalized version of ... Read More »

October 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Grass

By Keum Suk Gendry-Kim; Janet Hong (trans.)

Comics’ rise to respectability in recent decades has as much to do with the inherent value of the medium as the gravity of subjects that comprise its landmark works. Fun Home, Maus, Persepolis, Louis Riel: ... Read More »

October 10, 2019 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

★ Had It Coming: What’s Fair in the Age of #MeToo?

By Robyn Doolittle

Journalist Robyn Doolittle’s latest work of non-fiction is an in-depth look at sexual politics and rape culture in the wake of the #MeToo movement, including the ramifications on the Canadian justice system. Extending the research ... Read More »

October 10, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

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