The Slip

When Philip Sharpe – philosophy professor, bestselling author, and left-wing public intellectual – makes a phenomenally ill-advised remark on live TV, his “slip” goes viral, sending the rest of his life into a tailspin. It’s ... Read More »

May 4, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Where it Hurts

By Sarah De Leeuw

Where it Hurts, by University of Northern British Columbia associate professor Sarah De Leeuw, details (among other things) the author’s life and times as a restless yet perceptive resident of remote outposts in northern B.C., ... Read More »

May 3, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Me and Me

By Alice Kuipers

Alice Kuipers seems to have a direct conduit to the teenage mind. Her young-adult novels capture the lives of regular, relatable teens without veering toward the sanitized or the cringe-inducing, so-raw-it-must-be-real pitfalls that can trip ... Read More »

May 2, 2017

Blue Field

By Elise Levine

Some novels draw you in; Blue Field drags you under and keeps clamping down, an exercise in storytelling as centrifugal force. A good portion of Elise Levine’s first book in more than a decade takes ... Read More »

May 1, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

By Scaachi Koul

Based on the conversational style, cultural relevance, and range of her work – which encompasses everything from current events newspieces to pop-culture listicles to personal essays, often about her family or Indian heritage – Toronto ... Read More »

April 24, 2017 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Good Morning, Grumple

By Manon Gauthier (ill.); Victoria Allenby

Waking up in the morning can be a challenge, but less so if you have someone who knows just the right combination of tickles, songs, and kisses to get you up and out of bed. ... Read More »

April 24, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West

By Mansoor Ladha

In August 1972, Idi Amin demanded that all Asians exit Uganda in 90 days. In the neighbouring countries of Tanzania and Kenya, Asians – or Muhindi as they were known – found themselves on edge. ... Read More »

April 24, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Bent Not Broken: Madeline and Justin (One-2-One series)

By Lorna Schultz Nicholson

Lorna Schultz nicholson’s third novel for Clockwise Press’s One-2-One series follows Madeline, a 14-year-old with a traumatic brain injury, and Justin, a high school senior still mourning his sister’s death, as they participate in their ... Read More »

April 24, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Washington’s Long War on Syria

By Stephen Gowan

While the complicated Syrian conflict is best known as the focal point for one of the largest refugee populations in world history, few have a firm grasp on the roots of a war that continues ... Read More »

April 24, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Phoebe Sounds It Out

By Denise Holmes (ill.); Julie Zwillich

Some kids’ books address thorny childhood issues by relocating the attendant angst to the animal world, or outer space, or lands of witchcraft and wizardry. Others, like Phoebe Sounds It Out, tackle problems head-on by ... Read More »

April 17, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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