Reviews

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

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

Heroes in My Head: A Memoir

By Judy Rebick

While Canadian activists seldom experience the same level of name recognition and celebrity enjoyed by their American counterparts, feminist leader Judy Rebick has long proved an exception to the rule. From marching in the streets, ... Read More »

May 28, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Warlight

By Michael Ondaatje

The dimmed lights that guided emergency vehicles during London’s wartime blackouts were known as warlight; this titular image sets the melancholy mood for Michael Ondaatje’s haunting new novel, which takes place in the years following ... Read More »

May 28, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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