Reviews

★ Young Frances

For many, this new graphic novel from Hartley Lin will signal the debut of a talented, thoughtful cartoonist. But connoisseurs of Canadian literary comics have already gotten to know Lin’s work over the past decade, ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Graphica

Sofie & Cecilia

By Katherine Ashenburg

Noted non-fiction writer Katherine Ashenburg’s debut novel is a thoughtful contribution to the now-familiar genre of fiction about women overshadowed by their proximity to masculine greatness. As Sofie & Cecilia emphasizes, the cost of male ... Read More »

March 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Red Word

By Sarah Henstra

It is not often easy to identify the ways cultural myths imbue our daily behaviour; a byproduct of any widely accepted mythology is the extent to which it embeds itself in our social consciousness and ... Read More »

March 8, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Rule of Stephens

By Timothy Taylor

Despite the notable presence of anxiety-suppressing and sleep meds (from A to Z: Ativan, Klonopin, Paxipam, Valium, Xanax, Zopiclone), along with 499 souls killed in a jet crash and another handful of suicides, The Rule ... Read More »

March 5, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession

By Elaine Craig

Sexual assault victims contemplate the legal system with foreboding, their instincts for self-preservation sharpened by the experience of sexual assault itself. The punishing cross-examinations of victims in sexual assault trials are well known. Progressive changes ... Read More »

March 1, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Comedian

By Clem Martini

Prolific novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Clem Martini focuses on his beloved theatre world – the milieu in which he has spent much of his professional life – with this clever first-person novel about classical Roman ... Read More »

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

After the War: Surviving PTSD and Changing Mental Health Culture

By Adam Montgomery; Stéphane Grenier

The body of the little girl lies bunched on the ground, her arms splayed forward. A few feet away is the bloated body of a man who could be her father or possibly her grandfather. ... Read More »

February 22, 2018 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

By Kim Fu

When Kim Fu’s debut novel, For Today I Am a Boy, appeared in 2014, it was met with acclaim and awards, as much for its story – about a transgender Chinese-Canadian boy named Peter fighting ... Read More »

February 15, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

By David Frum

David Frum is a conservative. He has been affiliated with both the right-wing U.K. think tank Policy Exchange and the American Enterprise Institute, and was a senior adviser to former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani ... Read More »

February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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