Reviews

The Boat People

“Exhaustion whenever he thought of the future; terror when he remembered the past.” That is the dark introduction to Mahindan, the protagonist of Sharon Bala’s debut novel. Along with nearly 500 other Sri Lankan refugees, ... Read More »

February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hysteria

By Elisabeth de Mariaffi

When approaching Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s taut and propulsive psychological thriller, it’s helpful to look at the controversial history of hysteria as a medical diagnosis, which has been used to degrade and control women for millennia. ... Read More »

January 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Dictionary of Animal Languages

By Heidi Sopinka

About a third of the way into Heidi Sopinka’s debut novel, the author describes a painting her protagonist, an artist named Ivory Frame, executes while still a student: There is a group of gluttonous grotesque ... Read More »

January 24, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Edging Forward: Achieving Sustainable Community Development

By Ann Dale

With a constant stream of newsfeed images showing communities caught up in extreme weather events – catastrophic floods, droughts, and wildfires – juxtaposed against increasingly outrageous political stories and fake news, it’s often difficult to ... Read More »

January 24, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Zolitude

By Paige Cooper

Given how often the stories in Paige Cooper’s debut feature solitary characters flailing for connection, readers might be forgiven for assuming the title is just some kind of clever millennial distortion of the English word ... Read More »

January 24, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ This Is All a Lie

By Thomas Trofimuk

Readers will notice something amiss from the very opening of This Is All a Lie, the new novel from Edmonton writer Thomas Trofimuk. It might be that the first page is numbered 320, with the ... Read More »

January 22, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Three Pleasures

By Terry Watada

The internment of more than 21,000 Japanese-Canadians, most of them in B.C., during the Second World War is a known but largely under-acknowledged black mark in Canada’s history. Justified by the War Measures Act and ... Read More »

January 22, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove and the Art of Resistance

By Will Aitken

Among the great Greek tragedies, perhaps no other has spawned as many successful adaptations and critical reflections as Sophocles’s Antigone. Novelist Will Aitken reminds readers why Antigone remains such a universally accessible play in this ... Read More »

January 18, 2018 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father

By Carys Cragg

“The world stops caring, and we all fall down.” This sentiment lies at the heart of Carys Cragg’s gripping and immersive memoir, Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father. ... Read More »

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Chief Lightning Bolt

By Daniel N. Paul

Notable Mi’kmaq elder and historian Daniel N. Paul (We Are Not Savages) makes a move away from his previously preferred genre to try his hand at fiction with Chief Lightning Bolt. Set in the 15th ... Read More »

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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