Pretty much everything you need to know about the new single-volume history of Canadian fiction in English, by noted academic and editor David Staines, can be gleaned from the book’s cover. The image – an ... Read More »
Dimitri Nasrallah's Hotline connects the reader to Muna Heddad, a widow and recent immigrant from Lebanon, as she navigates Montreal’s cold and lonely streets – which are cold as much from the unwelcoming disposition of ... Read More »
March 23, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Among Chinese people, the phrase “Have you eaten yet?” is shorthand for “How are you?” This colloquial greeting, writes filmmaker Cheuk Kwan, “shows that you care. Because of war, famine and poverty, people in old ... Read More »
March 21, 2022 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Reviews
In the prologue to Stéfanie Clermont’s debut novel – a multiple award winner in Quebec – she paints a portrait of an urban oasis. It is a spot in the Montreal neighbourhood of Hochelaga where ... Read More »
March 16, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
In her debut novel for adults, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award–winning children’s author Danielle Daniel mines her family history to tell an affecting and difficult story of colonialism, love, loss, and resilience based on two ... Read More »
March 14, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
To many, the Canadian North exists as an idea – a construct based on a loose, romanticized mythology curated by those who colonized it. It is cottage country to some, the untouched wilds to others, ... Read More »
March 8, 2022 | Filed under: Reviews
In 2003, when Canadian Eliza Reid moved to Iceland “for love,” she was already embarking on a unique experience; as recently as 1996, as Reid writes in her new book, Secrets of the Sprakkar, “a ... Read More »
March 2, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
“Fifty-nine-year-old homosexual found guilty of murdering an elderly widow at sea on a cruise ship.” This snippet from a criminology reference text provides a starting point for the novel My Two-Faced Luck, Brett Josef Grubisic’s ... Read More »
February 22, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
In his 2020 volume On Nostalgia, David Berry points out that the Greek root of “nostalgia” refers to a condition resembling homesickness or, more literally, a pain associated with home. This is particularly germane to ... Read More »
February 16, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
This debut novel by Lindsay Zier-Vogel begins with a breakup that’s as bewildering as it is agonizing. Grace Porter, a library technician at the University of Toronto, has built what seems to be a predictable ... Read More »
February 9, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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