Some Hellish

When most people think of the Prince Edward Island of literature, the image that comes up is of red-haired Anne Shirley and her romantic, sentimental adventures. But there is another, more rugged tradition of Atlantic ... Read More »

September 7, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Quiet Time

By Katherine Alexandra Harvey

“Have you ever heard of kintsukuroi?” Grace’s therapist, Trevor, asks her near the end of Katherine Alexandra Harvey’s grim, piercing debut, Quiet Time. “It’s this amazing Japanese art form. ... they repair vases that have ... Read More »

September 7, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Ordinary Deaths: Stories from Memory

By Samuel LeBaron

It really is possible to find life amid the fear and pain of death. Samuel LeBaron – a retired family physician, Stanford University professor, and one-time clinical psychologist – has collected his lessons from a ... Read More »

August 31, 2022 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography

★ Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By Kate Beaton

More than a decade after the release of her first bestselling comics collection Hark! A Vagrant, Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton returns with her first long-form graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. ... Read More »

August 24, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Jones

By Neil Smith

Humour abounds in Jones. On practically every page, there it is. “Gerbils are rats with better PR,” opines Joy Jones. She’s called Brassy Broad by her teenage daughter, Abigail, who possesses “the long, straight, ... Read More »

August 17, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Wild Fires

By Sophie Jai

“The story of my family is one of potholes and cracks that I have tried to fill over the years,” narrator Cassandra Mishra tells the reader a few pages into Sophie Jai’s debut novel, Wild ... Read More »

August 9, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Arboreality

By Rebecca Campbell

A self-described “writer of weird stories and climate-change fiction” (who “really like[s] ghosts, parasites, and A.I.s” too), Rebecca Campbell explores what-if scenarios that appear fantastical at a glance. Upon closer inspection, though, the Windsor, Ontario, ... Read More »

August 3, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Passengers

By Michael Crummey

“A hundred feet of line is as far / as we ever manage to travel / from our selves,” declares the speaker in “Tranströmer on Signal Hill,” the second poem in Michael Crummey’s Passengers. The ... Read More »

July 27, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Good Girl

By Anna Fitzpatrick

Any novel billed as “Secretary meets Fleabag” will make a certain demographic of readers consider whether it is truly a book for them – namely, those of us who wear sensible shoes and go to ... Read More »

July 13, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Immoral, Indecent, and Scurrilous: The Making of an Unrepentant Sex Radical

By Gerald Hannon

“I keep few secrets,” writes activist and journalist Gerald Hannon. This proves true in his frank and refreshing memoir, Immoral, Indecent, and Scurrilous: The Making of an Unrepentant Sex Radical. A titan of Canadian queer ... Read More »

July 6, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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