★ Consent

At first it seems like a mistake, or a moment of authorial laziness. The opening sentences in Annabel Lyon’s third novel for adults contain what appears to be a series of unconscious repetitions: “The baby ... Read More »

December 10, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey through a World Suspended

By Ethan Lou

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended everything we know. Isolation, fear, and confusion reign; for many, the world no longer makes any sense. Journalist Ethan Lou’s non-fiction debut serves as one possible map for this fog ... Read More »

December 10, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

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By Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a queer mixed Arab poet working out of Montreal. Their work to date has sought to open up explorations of queerness, family, culture, and diaspora, and of the strange process ... Read More »

December 7, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Stoop City

By Kristyn Dunnion

What an assured and attractively variegated collection of stories. Set in Toronto and small-town southern Ontario, Kristyn Dunnion’s 13 short pieces are marvellous feats of pacing and styling bolstered by vibrant characterization and enviable turns ... Read More »

December 7, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

One Madder Woman

By Dede Crane

It’s hard to imagine from today’s vantage that some of Édouard Manet’s most celebrated paintings, including Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, with its female nude picnicker gazing defiantly at the viewer, were decreed artistically worthless when ... Read More »

December 3, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

A Home Away from Home: True Stories of Wild Animal Sanctuaries

By Nicholas Read

The non-fiction book A Home Away from Home explores the ways in which wild animals are taken from their natural habitat and spotlights the people who are trying to help them regain some semblance of ... Read More »

December 3, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Written in Stone

By Peter Unwin

Linda first meets Paul at the cast party for a no-budget production of Beckett’s Happy Days in which Linda stars. Paul approaches Linda and asks if she’s any good with a canoe. When Linda begs ... Read More »

November 30, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Annaka

By Andre Fenton

Sixteen-year-old Annaka has spent the last 10 years going by Anna, but when she and her mother move from Halifax back to her hometown of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to take care of her Nan, her ... Read More »

November 30, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Blaze Island

By Catherine Bush

Coming into Catherine Bush’s Blaze Island is akin to entering a world with a large cast of characters, not unlike a Charles Dickens novel. While Dickens’s novels are cultural artifacts of their time, Bush’s book ... Read More »

November 26, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Book of Sam

By Rob Shapiro

Sixteen-year-old Sam – the protagonist of Toronto writer Rob Shapiro’s new YA novel – is a bit of an outcast. Bullied by his peers and largely overlooked by his parents (when they aren’t disparaging him), ... Read More »

November 26, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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