BOOK REVIEWS

★ Resisting Canada: An Anthology of Poetry

Last summer, Vancouver-based poet Rita Wong was arrested alongside other environmental activists for blocking access to the Trans Mountain pipeline worksite. She received a 28-day prison sentence this August and was released in early September, ... Read More »

October 24, 2019 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Lampedusa

By Steven Price

Steven Price's Lampedusa, a fictional account of how Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa came to write the classic novel The Leopard, doesn't deal in shocking revelations or major plot twists. In fact, anyone familiar with Tomasi's ... Read More »

October 21, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Choosing to Live, Choosing to Die: The Complexities of Assisted Dying

By Nikki Tate and Belle Wuthrich (ill.)

Death is an inevitability. But according to this topical read, what is up for considerable debate is “who and what determines when and how we die.” Choosing to Live, Choosing to Die pulls back the ... Read More »

October 21, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Murder and Other Essays

By David Adams Richards

“Murder,” David Adams Richards writes in his new work of non-fiction, “is always the same crime. It is always done in fear and rage. It always tries to hide itself and run away, and when ... Read More »

October 21, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

And Then the Seed Grew

By Marianne Dubuc

Marianne Dubuc’s And Then the Seed Grew is the story of an invasive plant that wreaks havoc on the living arrangements of several garden residents, both subterranean (a mole, a family of mice, ants, and ... Read More »

October 17, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Alma and the Beast

By Esmé Shapiro

October 17, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Chasing Painted Horses

By Drew Hayden Taylor

Prolific and award-winning Ojibway writer and playwright Drew Hayden Taylor returns with a new novel, his first full-length work of prose fiction for adults since 2010’s Motorcycles and Sweetgrass. One cold morning, a Toronto police ... Read More »

October 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Paper Houses

By Dominique Fortier; Rhonda Mullins (trans.)

The French language makes no distinction between the words for house and home – an inadequacy according to Governor General’s Literary Award–winning writer Dominique Fortier, whose sixth novel, Paper Houses, traces a fictionalized version of ... Read More »

October 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Scallywag on the Salish Sea

By Sara Cassidy and Mike Deas (ill.)

The nameless, parentless 10-year-old protagonist in Scallywag on the Salish Sea lives aboard a pirate ship – christened the Greasy Lobster – but he has very little interest in a swashbuckling life. The boy was ... Read More »

October 10, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Grass

By Keum Suk Gendry-Kim; Janet Hong (trans.)

Comics’ rise to respectability in recent decades has as much to do with the inherent value of the medium as the gravity of subjects that comprise its landmark works. Fun Home, Maus, Persepolis, Louis Riel: ... Read More »

October 10, 2019 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

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