When two former rebel soldiers return to the Great Lakes region of Africa after the Second Congo War, their mission for truth takes on new meaning when they cross paths with a Canadian filmmaker who ... Read More »
May 22, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
“Graphic medicine” – graphic novels that give a window into various medical conditions, usually from the patient’s point of view – has become a significant publishing trend in recent years, producing notable works such as ... Read More »
May 15, 2024 | Filed under: Graphica, Health & Self-help, Reviews
Christophe Bernard’s epic debut novel opens with what under any other circumstances would sound like a tall tale. In the last moments of the annual Gaspé diocese junior hockey tournament’s final game, the underdogs, a ... Read More »
May 8, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
If you lived in or near Toronto in the late 1980s and early 1990s, you probably have some recollection of the Scarborough Rapist’s reign of terror. If you are a woman, its impact is likely ... Read More »
May 7, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Myriam J.A. Chancy’s Village Weavers captures the origins, intersections, and ruptures of a lifelong friendship between Simone (Sisi) Val and Gertude (Gertie) Alcindor. The novel’s scope is ambitious, as it leaps between 1940s Port-au-Prince, 1970s ... Read More »
May 1, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
“The most interesting part of architecture is the non-functioning,” writes Cassidy McFadzean in “Pier Evil,” one of the poems in her third collection. In a later poem, McFadzean clarifies this observation: “Fluting’s the only feature ... Read More »
Dallas Hunt’s Teeth is a stirring follow-up to Creeland, his first book of poetry. In “Cree Dictionary,” from his debut collection, Hunt begins with a witty redefinition of terms: “the translation for joy / in ... Read More »
April 10, 2024 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Poetry, Reviews
Faith Arkorful’s debut book, The Seventh Town of Ghosts, is a collection of lyric poems suffused with a heart-centred intelligence. These poems move through grief, memory, and joy with the insight of “a black girl ... Read More »
In his genre-bending debut novel, Dayspring, Toronto writer Anthony Oliveira has crafted a truly one-of-a-kind depiction of the life of Jesus Christ – reimagined from the perspective of the apostle John, described in the Bible ... Read More »
April 3, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
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