Reviews

Dreaming Home

Coming out isn’t always easy. And it isn’t always by choice. One encounter on a fateful afternoon leads to a lifetime of alienation and discontent for Kyle Turner, the central character in this debut novel ... Read More »

June 28, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Much Ado About Nada

By Uzma Jalaluddin

Nada Syed, the titular character in Uzma Jalaluddin’s new novel Much Ado About Nada, is nearly 30, not flirty, and certainly not thriving. Nada works a job she hates, lives with her overprotective parents in ... Read More »

June 21, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys

By Aaron Tucker

The days of the western’s primacy in popular culture may have come and gone, but its underlying value system of an ascendant masculinity has managed to stave off extinction; this is the premise of Aaron ... Read More »

June 21, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Let It Destroy You

By Harriet Alida Lye

A complex and magnificent drama is about to be explained. This is the promise of Let It Destroy You as the novel opens on physicist August Snow on the eve of his trial for war ... Read More »

June 14, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures

By Lorna Goodison

Jamaica’s former poet laureate and Queen’s Gold Medal recipient Lorna Goodison is a deeply established writer who has published 15 poetry collections, a number of short story collections, and a memoir. Redemption Ground, a collection ... Read More »

June 7, 2023 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews

Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey Through Mental Health

By Jason Schreurs

Can unconstrained caterwauling, deafening decibels, and a thoroughly nonconformist ethos provide a balm to soothe psychological woes? The answer is an emphatic yes, says Jason Schreurs, a long-time music journalist and lifelong punk rock ... Read More »

June 7, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Health & Self-help, Reviews

★ The Morning Bell Brings the Broken Hearted

By Jennifer Manuel

Jennifer Manuel’s debut novel, The Heaviness of Things That Float, told the story of a white nurse who spends 40 years serving a remote First Nations community in northwestern B.C. That book, which won ... Read More »

May 31, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the Forest

By Amanda Lewis

When Amanda Lewis, a burnt-out book editor, and “completionist,” set out to visit all the Champion trees in British Columbia, she was also tracking something lost during a “difficult” relationship with her goal-and-checklist life. Academic ... Read More »

May 24, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Science, Technology & Environment

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