★ After James

Michael Helm has spent his career probing the relationship between the intellectual and the physical. He tackled the subject in his first two novels, The Projectionist and In the Place of Last Things, by exploring ... Read More »

October 3, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known

By Danila Botha

When Danila Botha burst onto the scene in 2010 with the story collection Got No Secrets, she was hailed as an emerging literary talent. Her voice was fresh, raw, and honest; her debut quickly established ... Read More »

October 3, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel

By David Leach

Reading David Leach’s thoroughly researched and expertly envisioned new book, one cannot help but be reminded of the twin etymology of the word “utopia.” The term comes from both the Greek eu topos, meaning a ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism

By Tim McCaskell

Tim McCaskell is often referred to as a granddaddy of gay activism in Canada, though he’s suggested he prefers the term “dinosaur.” In his exhaustive history of LGBT politics in Toronto and beyond, McCaskell tracks ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Swinging Through Dixie

By Leon Rooke

Toward the end of her fine new collection of deceptively expansive short stories, Kathy Page unfurls a little number called “Daddy,” told from the point of view of a child spelunking with his (her?) father ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Into the Sun

By Deni Ellis Béchard

They can be found in every contemporary war zone – daredevil journalists, amoral mercenaries, and assorted foreign do-gooders. Some go seeking adventure, some are addicted to warfare, and others are plagued by liberal guilt over ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life

By Erin Wunker

Rebecca Solnit’s essay collection Men Explain Things to Me and Roxanne Gay’s Bad Feminist opened the floodgates for a spate of similar works from writers ruminating on the exasperating experience of being female in today’s ... Read More »

September 28, 2016 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War

By Deborah Campbell

B.C. author Deborah Campbell, a self-styled “immersive journalist” who has published in Harper’s, The Walrus, and elsewhere, sees it as her goal to “bridge the gap between the readers of magazines I write for … ... Read More »

September 22, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Break

By Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette’s first book, North End Love Songs, a poetry collection set among Winnipeg’s Métis community, won a 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award. In her debut novel, the author finds herself in familiar and heart-wrenching ... Read More »

September 21, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Adjustment League

By Mike Barnes

The Super lives a quiet, solitary life, taking care of a rundown Toronto apartment building in exchange for a break on the rent. After what happened to his wife and daughter, he craves the routine ... Read More »

September 20, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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