Reviews

★ Immigrant City

In his sophomore volume of short fiction, David Bezmozgis deepens his exploration of the fates and furies that beset Jewish immigrants as they struggle with the unwieldy claims of the past. Replete with the wry ... Read More »

February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose

By Samra Zafar with Meg Masters

Written in collaboration with author and editor Meg Masters and based on a 2017 article published in Toronto Life magazine, A Good Wife traces the heart-wrenching and empowering story of Samra Zafar, a cricket-loving Pakistani ... Read More »

February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Provisionally Yours

By Antanas Sileika

Antanas Sileika’s bleak spy novel takes us into what for most readers will be unfamiliar territory: Lithuania just after the end of the First World War. Recently freed from German occupation and granted independence, the ... Read More »

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

Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault

By Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee (eds.)

What does it mean to be a survivor of sexual assault? Faced with this question in a new collection of essays edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee, 12 writers respond with equal ... Read More »

February 25, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case

By Kent Roach

Settler or Indigenous, it’s impossible to approach Kent Roach’s Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case without baggage. As an Indigenous person, this might include still-fresh traumas – including the injury ... Read More »

February 25, 2019 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

Only Pretty Damned

By Niall Howell

Life behind the scenes at Rowland’s World Class Circus – the setting of Calgary writer Niall Howell’s striking debut novel – is a far cry from the bright lights and laughter of the big top. ... Read More »

February 21, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Two Firsts: Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada

By Constance Backhouse

As we navigate feminism’s fourth wave, it can be easy to forget how we got here. The struggles of feminisms past have a lot to teach us about the tactics women marshalled to face down ... Read More »

February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Ladies, Upstairs!: My Life in Politics and After

By Monique Bégin

February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Voice: Adam Pottle on Writing with Deafness

By Adam Pottle

What does it mean to create? And how can one’s circumstances constrain or liberate creativity? Two Canadian academics and authors – Saskatoon’s Adam Pottle and Toronto’s Adrian McKerracher – sensitively and distinctively tackle these questions ... Read More »

February 11, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ What It Means to Write: Creativity and Metaphor

By Adrian McKerracher