BOOK REVIEWS

Footsteps in Bay de Verde: A mysterious tale

Bridie loves listening to the stories that get shared whenever the neighbours come round: tales of shipwrecks, murder, pirates, and ghosts. One night, squashed between her sister and brother in a corner of their kitchen ... Read More »

June 18, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space, and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia

By Jean Barman

Jean Barman has written about the history of B.C. for more than 30 years and has won multiple awards, but fans of her work have had to track down her shorter essays in individual journals. ... Read More »

June 15, 2020 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Cult Life

By Kyeren Regehr

In her second book of poetry, Kingston, Ontario, writer Sadiqa de Meijer crafts pieces that examine maternity. The Outer Wards disputes conventional notions of maternal instinct, instead conceiving of motherhood as a self one consciously ... Read More »

June 11, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The Outer Wards

By Sadiqa de Meijer

June 11, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Last Impressions

By Joseph Kertes

In this tender tragicomic novel, Joseph Kertes plumbs themes that have obsessed him throughout his career. How does a family come to terms with a traumatic history that feels too painful to talk about? Can ... Read More »

June 8, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Index Cards

By Moyra Davey

A collection of 14 essays, many of them extensions of pieces that originally involved other media, along with several reproductions of photographs, Index Cards is a frequently fascinating, if ultimately exhausting, survey of Toronto-born, New ... Read More »

June 8, 2020 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

★ Rain Boy

By Dylan Glynn

Come rain or shine, many situations in life are beyond our control. Two new picture books by debut authors offer insight into reframing attitudes and considering different perspectives. The titular character in Sunny, by St. ... Read More »

June 4, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Sunny

By Celia Krampien

June 4, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

By Sandra B. Tooze

When it comes to questions of provenance, who wrote Shakespeare’s plays and who wrote the Band’s songs are a couple of oldies but goodies. Famed literary critic Harold Bloom spent his life highly invested in ... Read More »

June 1, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

You Don’t Have to Die in the End

By Anita Daher

Anita Daher’s new novel starts off slow and choppy but by the end has you invested and enthralled. Eugenia Grimm’s father died by suicide and her mother left her soon after. One older brother is a ... Read More »

June 1, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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