Reviews

The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology

The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror novel, Frankenstein. In the two centuries since its appearance, the book has taken on the mantle of a cultural ... Read More »

June 7, 2018 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Mary Cyr

By David Adams Richards

Over a long and lauded career, David Adams Richards has carved out a spot as the chronicler of misery among the impoverished of New Brunswick’s Miramichi River region. With his new novel, he demonstrates that ... Read More »

June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Boy on the Beach: My Family’s Escape from Syria and Our Hope for a New Home

By Tima Kurdi

Homes: A Refugee Story is the heart-rending account of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, an Iraqi-born boy who as a child survived the civil war in Syria. Now a high-school student in Edmonton, his story is ... Read More »

June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

★ Homes: A Refugee Story

By Abu Bakr al Rabeeah; Winnie Yeung

June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo

By Claire Tacon

In her sophomore novel, Claire Tacon takes a gentle and measured approach to the story of one family’s experience with Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that results in developmental and physical disabilities. The novel is ... Read More »

May 31, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy (and Work)

By Gwynne Dyer

Two seismic political events shook the world in 2016, confounding pollsters and pundits and jarring politicians and citizens alike. The first was the Brexit vote in the U.K.; the second was the election of Donald ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Whenever You’re Ready: Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager

By Shawn DeSouza-Coelho

Shawn DeSouza-Coelho’s new book about life backstage at what is arguably Canada’s premiere repertory company – Ontario’s Stratford Festival – provides a unique, albeit superficial, glimpse into a little-known and often unheralded part of the ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos

By Aaron Tucker

History has immortalized American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as the “father of the atomic bomb.” In the seven decades since the consummation of the Manhattan Project and the apocalypse wrought upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

1979

By Ray Robertson

Small towns have always occupied a fraught place in Canadian storytelling. Unlike cities or the wilderness – places where things happen – small towns in our national literature have usually been defined by their sense ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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