Reviews

Sick of the System: Why the COVID-19 Recovery Must Be Revolutionary

The COVID-19 pandemic has had various impacts, both minor and severe. For Between the Lines Publishing, it’s provided an opportunity to answer the call of writer Arundhati Roy, who penned a viral essay inviting her ... Read More »

July 23, 2020 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Reviews

The Woman before Wallis: A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal

By Bryn Turnbull

If one positive thing came out of Madonna’s disastrous 2011 Wallis Simpson biopic, W.E., it’s that the film introduced Toronto writer Bryn Turnbull to the story of Thelma Morgan Furness. The American socialite had been ... Read More »

July 20, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Imago Stage

By Karoline Georges; Rhonda Mullins (trans.)

The epigraph to Daniel J. Boorstin’s essential 1961 book The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America is a quote from the Swiss playwright Max Frisch: “Technology … the knack of so arranging the world ... Read More »

July 13, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Diamond House

By Dianne Warren

How does one measure the worth of a life? By deeds done or money earned? The number of family and friends one holds close? Years lived? And how do these measurements differ when applied to ... Read More »

July 9, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Speechless

By Anne Simpson

A novel about a white woman claiming to speak for a Black woman comes burdened with the pre-existing trope of the “white saviour complex,” a belief system rooted in colonization’s “civilizing” efforts of trade, religion, ... Read More »

July 6, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?: Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk

By James Wilt

“Today everyone who values cities is disturbed by automobiles,” wrote Jane Jacobs in her 1961 classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities. “At present public transportation languishes, but not from a lack of ... Read More »

June 18, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

★ On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space, and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia

By Jean Barman

Jean Barman has written about the history of B.C. for more than 30 years and has won multiple awards, but fans of her work have had to track down her shorter essays in individual journals. ... Read More »

June 15, 2020 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Cult Life

By Kyeren Regehr

In her second book of poetry, Kingston, Ontario, writer Sadiqa de Meijer crafts pieces that examine maternity. The Outer Wards disputes conventional notions of maternal instinct, instead conceiving of motherhood as a self one consciously ... Read More »

June 11, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The Outer Wards

By Sadiqa de Meijer

June 11, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Last Impressions

By Joseph Kertes

In this tender tragicomic novel, Joseph Kertes plumbs themes that have obsessed him throughout his career. How does a family come to terms with a traumatic history that feels too painful to talk about? Can ... Read More »

June 8, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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