Reviews

★ Daniil and Vanya

By Marie-Hélène Larochelle; Michelle Winters (trans.)

Reading Marie-Hélène Larochelle’s debut novel is like watching a terrifying play. The sense of dread and horror is physically palpable, and the careful stagecraft of the writing – in Michelle Winters’s capable English translation – ... Read More »

October 1, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Virtues of Disillusionment

By Steven Heighton

The word “disillusion,” Steven Heighton posits, is something of an anomaly in the English language: a double-negative construction that yields not a positive synthesis but a negative. It’s a “paradox,” Heighton explains, using mathematical principles ... Read More »

October 1, 2020 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

★ Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos

By Steven Heighton

October 1, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ The Company We Keep

By Frances Itani

If nothing else, Frances Itani’s latest novel shows the utter importance of community. Such a message is ironically timely, given the current need for physical distancing during a global pandemic. But Itani’s book is much ... Read More »

September 28, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence

By Jonathan Manthorpe

By now, everybody knows that Francis Fukuyama got it wrong. When he declared, in his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, that the fall of the U.S.S.R. and the Berlin Wall ... Read More »

September 28, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ A History of My Brief Body

By Billy-Ray Belcourt

In his highly anticipated memoir, Billy-Ray Belcourt – the youngest winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize – proves yet again his astonishing linguistic precision and beauty. Reimagining the form and structure of a conventional memoir, ... Read More »

September 24, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Reviews

How to Lose Everything

By Christa Couture

Christa Couture is a singer-songwriter, author, and broadcaster. She is Cree and Scandinavian. She is a mother. She is disabled. She is, as she puts it, “every parent’s worst nightmare.” Couture’s debut memoir details a ... Read More »

September 17, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Dominoes at the Crossroads

By Kaie Kellough

Kaie Kellough’s second book of fiction, the story collection Dominoes at the Crossroads, follows the subversive, polyphonic trail of his novel, Accordéon (a finalist for the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award), and his recent book ... Read More »

September 14, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

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