Reviews

Flying, Falling, Catching: An Unlikely Story of Finding Freedom

By Henri J. M. Nouwen and Carolyn Whitney-Brown

Five years before his fatal heart attack in 1996, Dutch theologian, psychologist, and teacher Henri Nouwen’s outlook on life was changed by a trapeze act high up in a circus tent. For Nouwen, the ... Read More »

May 3, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust

By Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer; Gilad Seliktar and Nico and Rolf Kamp; Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel; Charlotte Schallié (ed.)

Never forget. This is the rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement. Yet Holocaust denial is widespread and global anti-Semitism is on the rise. There is an epidemic of both ignorance and disinformation about the ... Read More »

April 27, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ The Quiet in Me

By Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier (intro.)

Editing Patrick Lane’s final book of poetry must have been difficult for his wife, poet Lorna Crozier, but as she says in the introduction, “I turned the editing into a conversation, the final dialogue about ... Read More »

April 26, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By Chelsea Vowel

The debut collection of short stories from Métis writer Chelsea Vowel is a gut renovation of the science-fiction genre that liberates dystopian and post-apocalyptic ideas from tired tropes to explore radical possibilities for Indigenous resilience. ... Read More »

April 20, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Fugue with Bedbug

By Anne-Marie Turza

Anne-Marie Turza’s second collection with House of Anansi Press is a straight up weird book. But you will delight in its weirdness. Surreal at its core, the collection uses its musicality to ease its reader ... Read More »

April 20, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Autonomy

By Victoria Hetherington

Abortion is illegal, a plague is spreading, and the Arctic needs defending from Russia. No, Victoria Hetherington’s new novel, Autonomy, doesn’t take place next Thursday. The year is 2035, the place Ontario, and – aside ... Read More »

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

You Still Look the Same

By Farzana Doctor

You Still Look the Same is the first book of poetry by novelist Farzana Doctor, whose fiction explores queerness and sexuality in the small and insular Dawoodi Bohra sect of Islam. Doctor’s 2020 novel, Seven, ... Read More »

April 12, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Hail, The Invisible Watchman

By Alexandra Oliver

Two new books from seasoned poets Nancy Jo Cullen and Alexandra Oliver share thematic and stylistic territory, turning their attention to family and community dynamics, sexism, and the domestic sphere in poems that make frequent ... Read More »

April 5, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Nothing Will Save Your Life

By Nancy Jo Cullen

April 5, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The Running-Shaped Hole

By Robert Earl Stewart

For Robert Earl Stewart, polishing off four cheeseburgers on the way home from work would be only the beginning of a typical evening of gastronomical excess. A former alcoholic, Stewart found solace in 12-step fellowship, ... Read More »

March 30, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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