Reviews

Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada

By Gabriel Allahdua; with Edward Dunsworth

From John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath and Woody Guthrie’s song “Deportee,” to Edward R. Murrow’s 1960 Harvest of Shame broadcast and Canadian filmmaker Min Sook Lee’s documentary Migrant Dreams, the brutal working and ... Read More »

April 12, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ Xanax Cowboy

By Hannah Green

In this cinematic debut poetry collection, Hannah Green features the Xanax Cowboy (XC) as the main character of a metadrama of anxiety and its effects. In Green’s impressive character study of existential complexity and ... Read More »

April 5, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Leave My Bones in Saskatoon

By Michael Afenfia

Before arriving at its destination of Saskatoon, Canada, Michael Afenfia’s Leave My Bones in Saskatoon has a layover in Abuja, Nigeria. There, the reader meets Owoicho Adakole, a television presenter, who is at a visa ... Read More »

April 5, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

there’s more

By Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

In two new poetry collections, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s there’s more and Laila Malik’s archipelago, home is a moving, shifting entity. Umezurike’s first poem opens with the line, “Home is what the tortoise bears on its ... Read More »

March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry

archipelago

By Laila Malik

March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Instructions for the Drowning

By Steven Heighton

The first and last stories in Steven Heighton’s posthumous collection both feature characters punching someone with unintended consequences. In the title story, which opens the book, Ray recalls his father advising him that the only ... Read More »

March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ The Fake

By Zoe Whittall

Cammie, the chaotic force at the core of Zoe Whittall’s fifth novel, The Fake, can charm anyone. Even you, dear reader. “You’re a smart person, obviously,” she writes in an introduction. “You read books.” Much ... Read More »

March 22, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel

By Jeannie Marshall

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is currently touring event centres across Europe and North America (including a stop in Toronto this spring), promising a “life-size, up-close, never-before-seen perspective” of one of the world’s most celebrated ... Read More »

March 15, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, History, Memoir & Biography

★ Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

By Quinn Slobodian

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that stripped Walt Disney World of its special zoning – a move critics said was blatant retaliation for Disney’s opposition to DeSantis’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law – ... Read More »

March 15, 2023 | Filed under: Business & Economics, History, Politics & Current Affairs

The Book of Rain

By Thomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton’s ambitious new novel, The Book of Rain, begins with a tech blackout on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon. The confused city folk take it as it comes, a break from the monotony of ... Read More »

March 8, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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