Reviews

There Has to Be a Knife

During the 2014 edition of Canada Reads, Rawi Hage’s novel Cockroach received biting criticism. Its unnamed protagonist is a traumatized immigrant from the Middle East who finds residence in Montreal and ekes out a life ... Read More »

August 29, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise

By Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray spends the first part of her book about the murder of early 20th-century millionaire Harry Oakes describing how many books have already been written about the murder of Harry Oakes. And to tell ... Read More »

August 26, 2019 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Watching You Without Me

By Lynn Coady

After four novels, two short-story collections (including the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning Hellgoing), and appearances in myriad journals and anthologies, we’ve come to expect a certain level of excellence from Lynn Coady. Though less forceful ... Read More »

August 26, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Greenwood

By Michael Christie

In Greenwood, his thought-provoking second novel, B.C. writer Michael Christie uses the ringed cross-section of a tree as an organizing principle and structure. As Christie writes, “Wood is time captured. A map. A cellular memory. ... Read More »

August 26, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Innocents

By Michael Crummey

The Book of Genesis meets “Hansel and Gretel” by way of Flowers in the Attic: that would not be an inappropriate way to situate Michael Crummey’s new novel, a return to historical fiction following 2014’s ... Read More »

August 22, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Promise and Peril: Justin Trudeau in Power

By Aaron Wherry

In the future, semioticians and media literacy professors will no doubt expend much time and energy deconstructing the way photo editors choose to present images of Justin Trudeau. In the honeymoon period following his accession ... Read More »

August 22, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience

By Helen Knott

In her haunting, lyrical debut memoir, acclaimed Indigenous activist and writer Helen Knott – recipient of a 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author honour – sheds light on her addiction and mental health struggles, providing ... Read More »

August 19, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine

By Joanna Jolly

In Red River Girl, reporter and former BBC producer Joanna Jolly engages with the true-crime genre to tell the story of one Indigenous girl murdered during an ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Early ... Read More »

August 19, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Translated from the Gibberish: Seven Stories and One Half Truth

By Anosh Irani

Part short fiction and, seemingly, part autofiction, Anosh Irani’s latest book takes readers into and around the experiences of living between countries – Canada and India – between identities, and between stories. In these works, ... Read More »

August 15, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation

By Annahid Dashtgard

The child of a British mother and Persian father, Annahid Dashtgard “was always trying to fix [her] world.” Dashtgard’s family was exiled from Iran in 1980, the year following the Islamic Revolution that ushered in ... Read More »

August 15, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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