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Index Cards

A collection of 14 essays, many of them extensions of pieces that originally involved other media, along with several reproductions of photographs, Index Cards is a frequently fascinating, if ultimately exhausting, survey of Toronto-born, New ... Read More »

June 8, 2020 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

By Sandra B. Tooze

When it comes to questions of provenance, who wrote Shakespeare’s plays and who wrote the Band’s songs are a couple of oldies but goodies. Famed literary critic Harold Bloom spent his life highly invested in ... Read More »

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

Before the Parade: A History of Halifax’s Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities 1972–1984

By Rebecca Rose

“Though we never met, in many ways Anne Fulton is the reason I am writing this book.” That is the opening of the preface for this thorough and intimate history of the first 12 years ... Read More »

May 28, 2020 | Filed under: History, Reviews

★ Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

By Tessa McWatt

New books by Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt expertly navigate the experience of coming into their respective authors’ identities as Black women. For Martis, finding a community amid isolation slowly strengthens her. For McWatt, the ... Read More »

May 25, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

By Eternity Martis

May 25, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

All I Ask

By Eva Crocker

Who among us can honestly say they’d be free of fear or embarrassment if their phone and laptop were seized and scrutinized by law enforcement? Such is the anxiety-plagued situation of Stacey Power, the protagonist ... Read More »

May 21, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Stay Where I Can See You

By Katrina Onstad

Gwen Kaplan is a content, loving, maybe even slightly smug suburban stay-at-home mom of two. She is devoted to her children and husband and comfortable with her modest, unassuming life. When she wins close to ... Read More »

May 14, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Where the Waters Meet

By Stéphanie Boulay; Ghislaine LeFranc (trans.)

A shifting, nebulous sense of identity sits at the heart of this dense, metaphoric novella by French-Canadian author Stéphanie Boulay. Set in what we can assume are the wilds of rural Quebec, Where the Waters ... Read More »

May 7, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down the Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose

By Karin Wells

Not many Canadians remember – or ever knew – the story of the Abortion Caravan, a group of women who drove from Vancouver to Ottawa in the spring of 1970 to challenge Canada’s abortion laws. ... Read More »

May 4, 2020 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Umma’s Table

By Yeon-Sik Hong; Janet Hong (trans.)

How our way of life and health are interconnected with those of our children and parents is of particular interest in this season of global pandemic. In a translation by Vancouver writer Janet Hong, Korean ... Read More »

May 4, 2020 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

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