Reviews

A Train in the Night: The Tragedy of Lac-Mégantic

By Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny and Christian Quesnel (ill.); W. Donald Wilson (trans.)

Lac-Mégantic made headlines across the country and around the world when a train derailment destroyed half of that sleepy Québec town one summer night in 2013, taking 47 lives in an instant. Now, in an ... Read More »

October 26, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, History, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Cactus Gardens

By Evelyn Lau

Cactus Gardens is the latest collection by award-winning author and former Vancouver poet laureate Evelyn Lau. Furthering her work of the last decade, the book is a testament to the craft inherent to confessional poetry ... Read More »

October 19, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Fayne

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald’s first novel in eight years, Fayne, is a reinvention for the bestselling author, who turns her attention away from the Canadian locales of her previous works to the wild borderlands of the British ... Read More »

October 18, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Elephant on Karlův Bridge

By Thomas Trofimuk

In his latest novel, The Elephant on Karlův Bridge, Thomas Trofimuk imagines the escape of an elephant named Sal from the Prague zoo on an early July morning. The novel follows the elephant through the ... Read More »

October 12, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

By Leonard Cohen

Reading the early and previously unpublished fiction of a writer – especially one known mainly for poetry – may produce some surprises, not all of them pleasant. And when the writer in question is a ... Read More »

October 5, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Reviews

Holden After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose

By Tara McGuire

When Tara McGuire’s son Holden died from an accidental opioid overdose at the age of 21, she was flattened by grief. There is no playbook for how to mourn the loss of your child, particularly ... Read More »

September 28, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The Vanishing Past: Making the Case for the Future of History

By Trilby Kent

In January of this year, a minor kerfuffle arose down south over a Virginia state bill intended to ban the discussion of “divisive concepts” in schools. Naturally, these included material about civil rights, LGBTQ+ rights, ... Read More »

September 28, 2022 | Filed under: History, Reviews

★ We Spread

By Iain Reid

We Spread – the dizzying, stunning fourth novel from Ontario writer Iain Reid – begins in isolation. Octogenarian Penny lives alone in the apartment she once shared with her partner (referred to only as “he”) ... Read More »

September 21, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Mukbang

By Fanie Demeule and Anita Anand (trans.)

One statement from a mother to her child – “You scare me” – changes everything. In Mukbang, Fanie Demeule’s sixth book, the author explores the insatiable hunger of those who were raised on the hollow ... Read More »

September 21, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda

By Michael Hingston

In Try Not to Be Strange, Edmonton author (and publisher of Hingston & Olsen Publishing) Michael Hingston happens upon the work of Javier Marías, the famous Spanish writer and translator, and finds an odd thread ... Read More »

September 14, 2022 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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