June 7, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Health & Self-help, Reviews
Can unconstrained caterwauling, deafening decibels, and a thoroughly nonconformist ethos provide a balm to soothe psychological woes? The answer is an emphatic yes, says Jason Schreurs, a long-time music journalist and lifelong punk rock ... Read More »
Jennifer Manuel’s debut novel, The Heaviness of Things That Float, told the story of a white nurse who spends 40 years serving a remote First Nations community in northwestern B.C. That book, which won ... Read More »
May 31, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
When Amanda Lewis, a burnt-out book editor, and “completionist,” set out to visit all the Champion trees in British Columbia, she was also tracking something lost during a “difficult” relationship with her goal-and-checklist life. Academic ... Read More »
May 24, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Science, Technology & Environment
The nature and power of storytelling has been a topic of critical conversation for more than 2,000 years, though the subject was likely active long before Aristotle’s Poetics. Over the course of two millennia, this ... Read More »
May 10, 2023 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews, Social Sciences
Early on in Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, John Vaillant makes one thing very clear – “there has never been a better time to be a fire.” The latest book from the ... Read More »
May 10, 2023 | Filed under: History, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment
“Because one half of me is my mother, I know she too would stand at the edge,” the narrator of “Climbing Mt. Sinai” thinks, as she gazes up at the fabled mountain. Across her debut ... Read More »
May 3, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
Hours after Kim Hancox learned that her husband, Toronto Detective Constable Bill Hancox, had been stabbed to death while on duty, reporters and camera crews began massing on her front lawn. They knocked on her ... Read More »
May 3, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Media, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Delving into his Métis heritage, Conor Kerr explores the collision of the natural and human-made worlds in his second book of poetry, Old Gods. The overall tone of the collection is anger, softened slightly by ... Read More »
April 26, 2023 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Poetry, Reviews
If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display, the wonderfully odd new collection from Fredericton writer, editor, and poet Nick Thran, is ostensibly rooted in the world of bookstores and booksellers, but ... Read More »
April 26, 2023 | Filed under: Anthologies, Criticism & Essays, Fiction: Short, Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews
Erin Noteboom’s A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen is a slow burn of simmering wisdom. First perceptions and origins are central themes, as is “unlocking a surge of awe” through first discoveries. ... Read More »