A book that explores the destructive effects of colonialism on Indigenous peoples and the process of healing from hundreds of years of abuse does not make for light reading. In Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous ... Read More »
March 11, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews
Adam Sol’s new book comprises 35 short essays about poetry that originated as blog posts. The audience imagined here comprises readers who might be intimidated by poetry, although, as Sol acknowledges in his introduction, “insiders” ... Read More »
March 7, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews
The thematic weight of Didier Leclair’s 2003 novel Ce pays qui est le mien, now in an English translation by Elaine Kennedy, announces itself first in the title. The novel focuses on Apollinaire, an immigrant ... Read More »
March 4, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
In his sophomore volume of short fiction, David Bezmozgis deepens his exploration of the fates and furies that beset Jewish immigrants as they struggle with the unwieldy claims of the past. Replete with the wry ... Read More »
February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
Written in collaboration with author and editor Meg Masters and based on a 2017 article published in Toronto Life magazine, A Good Wife traces the heart-wrenching and empowering story of Samra Zafar, a cricket-loving Pakistani ... Read More »
February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Antanas Sileika’s bleak spy novel takes us into what for most readers will be unfamiliar territory: Lithuania just after the end of the First World War. Recently freed from German occupation and granted independence, the ... Read More »
February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
What does it mean to be a survivor of sexual assault? Faced with this question in a new collection of essays edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee, 12 writers respond with equal ... Read More »
February 25, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews
Settler or Indigenous, it’s impossible to approach Kent Roach’s Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case without baggage. As an Indigenous person, this might include still-fresh traumas – including the injury ... Read More »
February 25, 2019 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs
Life behind the scenes at Rowland’s World Class Circus – the setting of Calgary writer Niall Howell’s striking debut novel – is a far cry from the bright lights and laughter of the big top. ... Read More »
February 21, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
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