Reviews

★ The Last Bonobo: A Journey into the Congo

To tell the story of Earth’s last wild bonobos – along with chimpanzees, humankind’s closest genetic relatives – author Deni Béchard travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Bonobo Conservation Institute, a small ... Read More »

June 11, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

One Hundred Days of Rain

By Carellin Brooks

One Hundred Days of Rain, by Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks, is as much a poem about rain as a novel about the demise of a marriage. The book begins with the narrator in jail for ... Read More »

June 8, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing nêhiyaw Legal Systems

By Sylvia McAdam

Books by indigenous writers serve a special function in Canada. Not only do they preserve stories from within their originating communities, they help to disseminate ideas and opinions to the larger Canadian populace, thereby aiding ... Read More »

June 3, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Native Peoples

★ Me Artsy

By Drew Hayden Taylor; ed.

June 3, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Native Peoples

Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

By Rosemary Sullivan

There is no denying Rosemary Sullivan’s thoroughness and dedication when it comes to research. In pursuit of information about Svetlana Alliluyeva, the subject of her new biography, the author travelled to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Gori, ... Read More »

June 1, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Too Much on the Inside

By Danila Botha

South African–born Danila Botha’s debut novel tells the extraordinary story of four individuals whose lives intersect in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood. The narrative, which is constructed in alternating first-person voices, reveals a deep understanding of human ... Read More »

May 28, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Specimen

By Irina Kovalyova

It’s no surprise to learn from Irina Koval-yova’s author bio that she is a senior lecturer in Simon Fraser University’s department of molecular biology and biochemistry. Or that she once interned for NASA. Or that ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What Was I Thinking? The Autobiography of an Idea and Other Essays

By Rick Salutin

The essay is a very personal form, a fact that provides columnist Rick Salutin his point of entry into this collection of new and previously published pieces. Salutin is a type of intellectual determinist, seeing ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Jim Guthrie: Who Needs What

By Andrew Hood

Andrew Hood’s new monograph on Jim Guthrie opens with a telling request from its star: “Is there any way that you can write me in as a supporting character in my own biography?” Besides pointing ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper’s New Conservative Agenda

By Brooke Jeffrey

The latest entry in the swelling ranks of books about the problems with Prime Minister Stephen Harper is Concordia University political science professor Brook Jeffrey’s Dismantling Canada. Like other titles in this category, Jeffrey’s book ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

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