BOOK REVIEWS

Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself

Every Canadian knows the analogy about living next door to the United States: “like sleeping with an elephant,” we are “affected by every twitch and grunt.” The analogy may be well-worn, but the challenge of ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Canada Alone: Navigating the Post-American World

By Kim Richard Nossal

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places

By Christopher Pollon

In a disturbing case of the cure possibly proving as deadly as the disease, Christopher Pollon’s Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places provides an eloquent, clear-eyed warning that, absent a radical ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom

By Khodi Dill and Stylo Starr (ill.)

Author and public speaker Khodi Dill’s latest, stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom, is a book with a purpose: to provide guidance for young racialized people. He employs both his personal experience as ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Adversary

By Michael Crummey

On the acknowledgements page of his gobsmackingly accomplished book The Adversary, Michael Crummey (author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted The Innocents) touches on the “looting and pilfering” that went into the writing of his sixth novel. ... Read More »

October 4, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life

By Maria Coffey

While in her twenties, Maria Coffey endures not one but two life-changing events: a near-drowning in Morocco, and the tragic disappearance of her then-boyfriend, British mountaineer Joe Tasker, on the Northeast Ridge of Everest. Hoping ... Read More »

October 4, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Travel

How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich in 17 Easy Steps

By Bambi Edlund

Who among us still throws dinner parties to show off our mastery of French cooking techniques, or is even – since the pandemic lockdowns ended – still keeping their sourdough starter alive? Time being once ... Read More »

October 2, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Tales for Late Night Bonfires

By G.A. Grisenthwaite

Tales for Late Night Bonfires is the long-awaited second work of fiction from Nłeʔkepmx writer G.A. Grisenthwaite. In 12 stories (some previously published), Grisenthwaite returns with the distinctive voice that characterized his debut, Home Waltz, ... Read More »

September 27, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ While You Were Sleeping

By Briana Corr Scott

While You Were Sleeping is a tender rhyming bedtime tale written and illustrated by Briana Corr Scott. Told in the second person, the book captures the simultaneous awe and sleepless toil of caring for a ... Read More »

September 25, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Roaming

By Mariko Tamaki; Jillian Tamaki

Roaming, the latest graphic novel from cousins Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, explores friendship, sex, and identity in an energetic romp through New York City rendered with sharp dialogue and in mesmerizing tableaus of soft ... Read More »

September 20, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Graphica, Reviews

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