Reviews

Detained: Islamic Fundamentalist Extremism and the War on Terror in Canada

Almost two decades after 9/11, career foreign affairs officer Daniel Livermore (a former director general of security and intelligence for Foreign Affairs Canada) delivers what he calls an insider’s reflection on terrorism and the litany ... Read More »

October 4, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Starlight

By Richard Wagamese

The release of a new Richard Wagamese novel is a cause for celebration. His work is always spellbinding, comprising powerful stories that get to the heart of Canada – funny, sad, sometimes disturbing and weighty, ... Read More »

October 1, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Queen Solomon

By Tamara Faith Berger

Tamara Faith Berger is one of the finest and most daring literary writers of the erotic, adept at capturing the frequently contradictory desires that move us to question often unexamined impulses. Her previous work has ... Read More »

October 1, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Split Tooth

By Tanya Tagaq

As a vocalist and composer, Tanya Tagaq cares little for conventional rules of engagement. An Inuk artist from Iqaluktuutiaq, Tagaq’s performances are innovative and face-meltingly intense, and she has collaborated with a wide array of ... Read More »

September 27, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Memoir & Biography

★ Vancouver Noir

By Sam Wiebe (ed.)

The dark underbelly of Vancouver is exposed in the crime anthology Vancouver Noir, the third Canadian book in the infamous and ongoing international noir series by Akashic Books. Edited by Sam Wiebe, author of the ... Read More »

September 24, 2018 | Filed under: Anthologies

This Keeps Happening

By H.B. Hogan

Someone always seems to be tossing out the idea that short-story collections are “having a moment” or “finally getting their due.” This kind of hyperbole is difficult to quell and doesn’t tell us much in ... Read More »

September 24, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Ambassador of What

By Adrian Michael Kelly

September 24, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

We All Need to Eat

By Alex Leslie

We All Need to Eat is Lambda Award–winning author Alex Leslie’s third book and second collection of short fiction. Over the course of nine linked stories, she presents intense moments from the emotional and psychological ... Read More »

September 20, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

By Andrea Warner

Sometimes biographies about musical heroes read like substantially expanded Wikipedia pages, told in chronological order and sticking to the dry musical facts: albums, hit songs, big concerts, and record deals. Maybe some juicy gossip. Andrea ... Read More »

September 20, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family

By Lindsay Wong

There’s something almost addictive about The Woo-Woo, the new memoir from Vancouver writer Lindsay Wong. Darkly funny, steeped in the macabre and grotesque, the book is at once an unflinching portrait of a borderline abusive ... Read More »

September 17, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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