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 »
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
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 »
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
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 »
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
Two young girls, Maren and Ula, visit their aunt by the seaside. They are bored and lonely, stuck indoors as they take care of the needs of their aunt, who seems confined to bed and ... Read More »
March 12, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
“There’s something terrible about the way normality asserts itself.” The statement, placed in the close third-person consciousness of István, the protagonist of Montreal-born David Szalay’s latest novel, could serve as a thesis for the entire ... Read More »
March 5, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Shark Girl’s life in the ocean goes swimmingly until she’s caught in a bottom trawl net and is suddenly dragged into troubled waters. Half human (from her powder blue shoulders up to her flowing mane ... Read More »
March 5, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Rachel Deutsch had always wanted a baby, and she had a pragmatic approach to having one – find a partner, improve herself, and become a mother before she got “old.” Although seemingly simple, her new ... Read More »
February 26, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Contact us via email


