Reviews

★ This One Looks Like a Boy:  My Gender Journey to Life as a Man

Ten years ago, I read a book called Almost Perfect. The young-adult novel by Brian Katcher won some awards and was held up as a powerful, nuanced portrayal of a young trans person. But the ... Read More »

January 31, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Soar, Adam, Soar

By Rick Prashaw with Adam Prashaw

January 31, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada

By Jonathan Manthorpe

Recent events in the news have rendered Claws of the Panda, the new book by journalist Jonathan Manthorpe, even more timely and important than it might have been mere months ago. In the wake of ... Read More »

January 24, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ Divided Loyalties

By Nilofar Shidmehr

“I arrive in Tehran two days after my brother called to inform me about Dad’s death,” says Maana Khanoom at the opening of the title story in the new collection by Iranian-Canadian poet and ... Read More »

January 21, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Hell and Damnation: A Sinner’s Guide to Eternal Torment

By Marq de Villiers

In the movie Event Horizon, the crew of a rescue vessel is dispatched to the far reaches of space to investigate the eponymous ship, which vanished without a trace and has reappeared as mysteriously. It ... Read More »

January 17, 2019 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Misfit: autistic. gay. immigrant. changemaker.

By Andreas Souvaliotis

“Why were [my employers] paying me for the amount of time and freedom I gave up to be at work each day instead of paying me for what I produced?” This sentence, the rallying cry ... Read More »

January 10, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Swimming with Horses

By Oakland Ross

For 15-year-old Sam Mitchell of the fictional Toronto suburb Kelso, the summer of 1963 is life-changing. That season marks the mysterious arrival of 18-year-old Hilary Anson, a transplant from South Africa who comes to stay ... Read More »

January 10, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Days by Moonlight

By André Alexis

“Days by Moonlight is not a work of realism. It’s not a work that uses the imagination to show the real, but one that uses the real to show the imagination.” So writes André Alexis ... Read More »

January 7, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Art of Leaving: A Memoir

By Ayelet Tsabari

Shortly before her 10th birthday, Ayelet Tsabari was forced to deal with the death of her father. Though losing a parent is undeniably painful – especially for a child – Tsabari’s father bequeathed his young ... Read More »

January 7, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Seven Days

By Patrick Senécal; Howard Scott and Phyllis Aronoff (trans.)

The name Patrick Senécal may not mean much to English-language readers, but in his home province, the author is a bona fide literary blockbuster. Frequently referred to as Quebec’s Stephen King, Senécal sells in the ... Read More »

December 20, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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