Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

In her new book, art critic Amy Fung does what a lot of BIPOC thinkers, especially Indigenous ones, ask us to do: deliberately situate ourselves in our narratives, clearly positioning ourselves vis-à-vis colonialism and the ... Read More »

May 27, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Criticism & Essays

Death Threat

By Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee (ill.)

Right from its slim hardcover format – reminiscent of French-language comic albums and seldom seen in English comics – it’s clear Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee’s Death Threat is no ordinary graphic novel. Both writer ... Read More »

May 23, 2019 | Filed under: Graphica

Mistakes to Run With

By Yasuko Thanh

In the first two pages of her new memoir, Yasuko Thanh delivers a fully formed portrait of an adolescence lived in a world of sheer contrasts. By the time she is 12 years old, Thanh ... Read More »

May 16, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

This One Because of the Dead

By Laure Baudot

Toronto authors Zalika Reid-Benta and Laure Baudot take markedly different approaches to their debut collections of short fiction. Reid-Benta’s book, Frying Plantain, is a coming-of-age sequence that takes an honest and penetrating look at the ... Read More »

May 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Frying Plantain

By Zalika Reid-Benta

May 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Meteorites

By Julie Paul

Absences recur throughout the 14 stories in Victoria author Julie Paul’s third collection. From the opening piece, about a man on vacation in Hawaii being haunted by the ghost of his dead father, to the ... Read More »

May 9, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Empress of Idaho

By Todd Babiak

It’s the long, hot summer of 1989 and 14-year-old Adam Lisinski – high-school football star, loyal friend to Simon, good son to his single mom, Helen – is living on the wrong side of the ... Read More »

May 9, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ This Wicked Tongue

By Elise Levine

When examining two new collections of short fiction as disparate and distinct as Elise Levine’s This Wicked Tongue and Kris Bertin’s Use Your Imagination!, it might seem appropriate, if not natural, to set the books ... Read More »

May 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Use Your Imagination!

By Kris Bertin

May 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Lands and Forests

By Andrew Forbes

“[H]e was bound to a life shaped by fire,” ruminates a character in the title story of Andrew Forbes’s second short-story collection. Fire persists as either a literal or figurative force of destruction throughout Lands ... Read More »

May 2, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

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