Reviews

Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life

“[T]he only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn ... Read More »

July 4, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age

By Richard Stursberg with Stephen Armstrong

If asked to come up with a metaphor for the current state of Canada’s media, most people would default to something bleaker than the tangled garden that appears in the title of the latest book ... Read More »

July 4, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Outside In: A Political Memoir

By Libby Davies

Libby Davies and Sid Ryan are high-profile figures who for decades have been on the front lines, calling out governments on social service cutbacks, environmental outrages, wars, and discrimination. While they share similar life trajectories ... Read More »

June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

A Grander Vision: My Life in the Labour Movement

By Sid Ryan

June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Café and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants

By Ann Hui

Chop Suey Nation, by Globe and Mail food writer Ann Hui, is an entertaining look at how Chinese food evolved to become quintessentially Canadian. Hui tells her "sweet and sour story" via a cross-country road ... Read More »

June 24, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Being Chinese in Canada: The Struggle for Identity, Redress and Belonging

By William Ging Wee Dere

June 24, 2019 | Filed under: History

Dream Sequence

By Adam Foulds

Two spare, world-spanning new novels by gifted prose stylists plumb the themes of love, death, and desire. Set on airplanes, in lonely flats, houses, and hotels, Turbulence by David Szalay and Dream Sequence by Adam ... Read More »

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

★ Turbulence

By David Szalay

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

Found Drowned

By Laurie Glenn Norris

Early in Laurie Glenn Norris’s new novel – which is based on a real murder – 16-year-old Mary Harney, her brother and sister, and her mother, Ann, travel home after a visit to Ann’s family. ... Read More »

June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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