Reviews

The Clothesline Swing

With nearly half a million Syrians dead and an estimated 10 million internally and globally displaced since the start of the country’s civil war in 2011, it’s no wonder that Ahmad Danny Ramadan’s The Clothesline ... Read More »

May 23, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I

By Michael Gates

A historian’s goal should always be to find a story that has not been told, or to find an old story and tell it a new way. Two new books, both about people in the ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: History, Reviews

★ From the Tundra to the Trenches

By Eddy Weetaltuk; Thibault Martin (ed.)

A historian’s goal should always be to find a story that has not been told, or to find an old story and tell it a new way. Two new books, both about people in the ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters

By Mark Kingwell

When Roger Angell started writing baseball essays for The New Yorker in the 1960s, he knew he’d need a fresh angle on the beloved game. He found it right where he was sitting: in the ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game That Saved Me

By Stacey May Fowles

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy

By Julia Cooper

Fusing social commentary and memoir, the latest instalment in Coach House’s Exploded Views series is a critical exploration of grief culture conducted by an author with a vested interest in the topic. Julia Cooper was ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Reviews

Life on Mars

By Lori McNulty

None of the stories in Lori McNulty’s debut collection is set on the planet Mars, but nevertheless that destination is invoked in nearly all of them, most often as a way of alluding to feelings ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Substitute

By Nicole Lundrigan

Following the publication of her fifth novel, 2013’s The Widow Tree, Nicole Lundrigan took a break from writing. “I felt drained of ideas,” she acknowledged in a blog post on her website. Eventually, however, she ... Read More »

May 15, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Arabic for Beginners

By Ariela Freedman

It would take a very good writer, in the opening pages of her first published novel, to distill the entire history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a symbol of two children fighting over a toy ... Read More »

May 11, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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