Reviews

Unwinnable Peace: Untold Stories of Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan

Three years after the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan, Canada’s lengthiest military engagement seems a distant memory, one almost unrecalled by most citizens, even those who can still name Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele as part of this ... Read More »

August 14, 2024 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

By Sonia Sulaiman (ed.)

In the introduction to Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, a collection of 14 stories by Palestinian writers from Canada and around the world, editor Sonia Sulaiman writes, “Whether you are a Palestinian ... Read More »

August 7, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards

By Jessica Waite

We often turn to guides when things get out of hand or messy and we need something to lead us back to order. A guidebook can offer solutions for regaining control – a guide to ... Read More »

July 31, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Stasio

By Tamas Dobozy

Stasio, the brilliant and powerful new novel from prize-winning writer Tamas Dobozy (Siege 13, Ghost Geographies), opens with bloodshed. “The children were killed first,” the novel begins, with a brutal understatement that characterizes the book. ... Read More »

July 24, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Art of Camouflage

By Sara Power

In her debut short story collection, Art of Camouflage, Sara Power explores what it means for women and girls to be at their lowest point, and how they can emerge from such depths. Through subtle ... Read More »

July 3, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Lost Tarot

By Sarah Henstra

“I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse,” said the British-Mexican 20th-century surrealist painter and novelist Leonora Carrington. “I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.” As a statement ... Read More »

June 26, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Cicada Summer

By Erica McKeen

Like Italo Calvino’s groundbreaking novel If On A Winter’s Night a Traveler, Erica McKeen’s Cicada Summer (her second book, following on Tear, winner of the 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction) embraces ... Read More »

June 19, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

WakeWord

By Wakefield Brewster

Bringing spoken word poetry to the page has historically been seen as controversial, since academia has tended to dictate the ways that poetry can be received and read, and spoken word consistently continues to challenge ... Read More »

June 12, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The War You Don’t Hate

By Blaise Ndala; Dimitri Nasrallah (trans.)

When two former rebel soldiers return to the Great Lakes region of Africa after the Second Congo War, their mission for truth takes on new meaning when they cross paths with a Canadian filmmaker who ... Read More »

May 22, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Jellyfish

By Boum; Robin Lang and Helge Dascher (trans.)

“Graphic medicine” – graphic novels that give a window into various medical conditions, usually from the patient’s point of view – has become a significant publishing trend in recent years, producing notable works such as ... Read More »

May 15, 2024 | Filed under: Graphica, Health & Self-help, Reviews

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