February 7, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews
Canadian literature is a multilingual territory, and I will admit that my first introduction to the work and life of French-Canadian poet Marie Uguay comes with the recent publication of her journals in translation. As ... Read More »
The Longest Shot tells the story of Larry Kwong, who grew up in Chinatown in Vernon, B.C., during the 1920s and 30s, and became the first Asian player in the NHL in 1948. His is ... Read More »
January 31, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
Cold, the chilling new thriller from prolific Ojibway writer Drew Hayden Taylor, begins with a plane crash. Journalist Fabiola Halan, one of two passengers in a Cessna piloted by Merle Thompson, is on a press ... Read More »
January 17, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
With Apparitions, Saskatoon writer and Deaf awareness advocate Adam Pottle (Voice: Adam Pottle on Writing with Deafness) has crafted perhaps the most unsettling novel of the year, an account of violence and despair, isolation and ... Read More »
December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Brandon Reid’s debut novel Beautiful Beautiful centres around 12-year-old Derik Mormin, who is Heiltsuk through his father and English through his mother. After living in the city for all of his life, he is detached ... Read More »
December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
The pitch for an article on “demystifying the writing process” that I received in my email within days of reading The Cobra and the Key was the kind of odd, grandiosely worded missive you might ... Read More »
December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
“Our creative process was born there, in the bottom of garbage cans our parents emptied so that we could sit quietly, observing the world and putting it into words,” writes Caroline Dawson in an autobiographical ... Read More »
December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Smokie – “a big, strong, fast black Labrador retriever” – came into now-retired university professor Rod Michalko’s life in 1992. Michalko, legally blind since childhood, experienced a dramatic change in his vision later in life, ... Read More »
December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Social Sciences
Adrian Yates is used to fading into the background, especially at home, where his dads are too busy arguing to pay him any attention. Drifting listlessly through mundane summer days, the only thing tethering Adrian ... Read More »
December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
A paean to the richness of culture and the inclusivity of art, Mehndi Boy by debut author Zain Bandali is a captivating early chapter book that is as intricate and lush as the henna that ... Read More »
December 12, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books