Reviews

A Reckoning

The biblical principle of the sins of the father being visited upon the sons is very much at play in Linda Spalding’s follow-up to her 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award winner, The Purchase. That novel ... Read More »

October 17, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Human Spirit

By Lynn Gehl

In the Anishinaabe culture, “Mino-pimadiziwin” means “the good life.” In context, Mino-pimadiziwin can be understood as a wholistic life, one that includes fostering a relationship to land and community, and sharing knowledge with others. Lynn ... Read More »

October 16, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

To Me You Seem Giant

By Greg Rhyno

The most effective vehicles for nostalgia are often sensory: the sight of former stomping grounds revisited after time away; the unbearably saccharine wave of the vodka coolers you swore off after too many notoriously bad ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Fiddler Is a Good Woman

By Geoff Berner

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Shoe on the Roof

By Will Ferguson

Is madness a choice? Can a person be “driven sane” through behaviour modification and tough love? Is a sense of oneness with God nothing more than a reaction to stimulation in a specific part of ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What Can You Do

By Cynthia Flood

Two new short-fiction collections – one by a first-time author, the other by a veteran – each examine the life experiences and inner worlds of a range of characters, but in radically different ways. In ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Doll’s Alphabet

By Camilla Grudova

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Carpenter from Montreal

By George Fetherling

“Am I trying to deal with a crisis I left behind?” wonders Cynthia McConnell near the beginning of George Fetherling’s neo-noir novel. Well might she ask, as she speaks to us from beyond the grave ... Read More »

October 3, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Afterwork: Essays on Literature and Beauty

By Anne Compton

Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet Anne Compton’s latest book is a collection of essays surveying the writer’s life and interests, all bound by Compton’s lyric voice. Afterwork begins with an essay on the first summer ... Read More »

October 3, 2017 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage

By Ken McGoogan

The Arctic adventures of explorers like Sir John Franklin are familiar to the many Canadians who harbour a seemingly insatiable interest in the discovery of the Northwest Passage. But for every white man obsessed with ... Read More »

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: History

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