The Desirable Sister

What happens when sibling rivalry is based on the colour of one’s skin? This is the premise of Surrey, B.C., author Taslim Burkowicz’s second novel, a story of two sisters, Gia and Serena Pirji, whose ... Read More »

November 4, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Exile Blues

By Douglas Gary Freeman

Douglas Gary Freeman’s Exile Blues incorporates historical events and settings to create an engaging and multi-faceted narrative of survival and strength. We travel with the main character, Preston “Prez” Downs Jr., through his childhood to ... Read More »

October 31, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Red Chesterfield

By Wayne Arthurson

An abandoned sofa and a grisly find set the action in motion in the latest work from Edmonton author Wayne Arthurson. In a sharp deconstruction of the conventions of the mystery genre, Arthurson uses prose ... Read More »

October 31, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Against the Wind

By Jim Tilley

Imagine the comedic possibilities if Oscar Wilde had penned a play about a foursome involving two women both romantically involved with the same two men. Such a play would have been a laugh a minute. ... Read More »

October 28, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Major Misconduct: The Human Cost of Fighting in Hockey

By Jeremy Allingham

Don Cherry, every hockey fan’s favourite bombastic promoter of on-ice fisticuffs, will undoubtedly dislike the thesis of CBC journalist Jeremy Allingham’s new book: to protect players’ brains and to focus more on skills, fighting can ... Read More »

October 28, 2019 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry

By Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme (eds.)

Last summer, Vancouver-based poet Rita Wong was arrested alongside other environmental activists for blocking access to the Trans Mountain pipeline worksite. She received a 28-day prison sentence this August and was released in early September, ... Read More »

October 24, 2019 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Resisting Canada: An Anthology of Poetry

By Nyla Matuk (ed.)

October 24, 2019 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Lampedusa

By Steven Price

Steven Price's Lampedusa, a fictional account of how Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa came to write the classic novel The Leopard, doesn't deal in shocking revelations or major plot twists. In fact, anyone familiar with Tomasi's ... Read More »

October 21, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Murder and Other Essays

By David Adams Richards

“Murder,” David Adams Richards writes in his new work of non-fiction, “is always the same crime. It is always done in fear and rage. It always tries to hide itself and run away, and when ... Read More »

October 21, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Chasing Painted Horses

By Drew Hayden Taylor

Prolific and award-winning Ojibway writer and playwright Drew Hayden Taylor returns with a new novel, his first full-length work of prose fiction for adults since 2010’s Motorcycles and Sweetgrass. One cold morning, a Toronto police ... Read More »

October 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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