BOOK REVIEWS

★ Muybridge

By Guy Delisle; Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall (trans.)

In his new graphic biography, Muybridge, Quebec cartoonist Guy Delisle delivers a portrait of an unusual man’s very unusual life. Though he never became a household name like his contemporary Thomas Edison (who also ... Read More »

April 30, 2025 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Graphica, History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

First Times: Short Stories about Sex

By Karine Glorieux (ed.) and Shelley Tanaka (trans.)

First Times: Short Stories about Sex is an anthology that details first sexual experiences and awakenings. Ranging from first solo sexual explorations to first times with a partner, this collection aims to combat the often ... Read More »

April 30, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Tunnel Island

By Bill Gaston

In the first story of Tunnel Island, the new collection of short fiction from Gabriola Island, B.C., writer Bill Gaston, readers are introduced to the titular Gulf Island that forms the setting for the collection. ... Read More »

April 23, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Language of the Stars: The Scientific Story of a Few Billion Years in a Few Hundred Pages

By Nathan Hellner-Mestelman

In his 2024 nonfiction debut, Cosmic Wonder, uber-precocious B.C. high-schooler Nathan Hellner-Mestelman attempted to explain, as the subtitle put it, “our place in the epic story of the universe.” Released barely a year later, Hellner-Mestelman’s ... Read More »

April 23, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Unravel

By Tolu Oloruntoba

In the notes and attributions to Tolu Oloruntoba’s third collection – a list that includes Albert Camus and Alice Oswald, Ben Okri and John Donne, Christine Miserandino’s spoon theory (about energy allotment in people living ... Read More »

April 16, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

To Steal from Thieves

By M.K. Lobb

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

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