BOOK REVIEWS

To Steal from Thieves

As wealthy Londoners await the grand opening of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in the new Crystal Palace, Zaria Mendoza is at her work table in the city’s slums completing one of her late father’s ... Read More »

April 16, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction from the Future of Food

By J.J. Dupuis and A.G. Pasquella (eds.)

The future. Since at least the publication of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine in 1895, it’s always right over there. That’s true for me, absolutely. I grew up with space-age Tang – flavour crystals that astronauts mixed ... Read More »

April 9, 2025 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short, Food & Drink, Reviews

Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology

By Ian Thomas Shaw and Tim Niedermann (eds.)

April 9, 2025 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

The Fabulous Edweena

By Edwin Dumont and Melissa Cho (ill.)

The Fabulous Edweena, written by Edwin Dumont and illustrated by Melissa Cho, is a heartening, picture-book introduction to drag. A young boy, Edwin, has been practising and waiting all year for a school figure skating competition. While ... Read More »

April 9, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Elegy for Opportunity

By Natalie Lim

Elegy for Opportunity has that unwilling-to-be-embarrassed, declarative quality many debuts possess, an earnestness that hasn’t been spoiled by over-crafting or listening too closely to the demands of CanLit. It’s a (presumably?) millennial poet’s first urgent ... Read More »

April 2, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Hugs Are (Not) for Everybody

By Ella Russell and Udayana Lugo (ill.)

For many of us, hugs are part of everyday life. We hug our family, our friends, our pets, and depending on the circumstances, we even hug people we just met. In North American society, this ... Read More »

April 2, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Re: Wild Her

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Shannon Webb-Campbell’s latest poetry collection, Re:Wild Her, is inhabited by an otherworldly narrator – part mystic, part pagan, part cool auntie, part It girl, all the way feminist goddess. The dedication itself indicates the ... Read More »

March 26, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Chidori: A Story of One Thousand Birds

By Jennifer Maruno and Miki Sato (ill.)

In March 2011, a major earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan resulting in a series of tsunami waves that brought devastation – with more than 18,000 people killed and disappeared – across the ... Read More »

March 26, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ The Inferno

By Lorna Goodison (trans.); Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century narrative poem The Inferno has been praised and loved, adapted and parodied in countless translations over the centuries. For two decades, Jamaican-Canadian poet Lorna Goodison engaged with the cantos of this epic ... Read More »

March 19, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ I Remember Lights

By Ben Ladouceur

Hello, gorgeous. Barbra Streisand’s iconic line, as Fanny Brice, captured during the filming of Funny Girl in late 1967, has all sorts of uses. Unbidden, the line came to me as I pored over the ... Read More »

March 12, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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