Arrival: The Story of CanLit

The vicissitudes of time and gentrification notwithstanding, it can be difficult to comprehend Toronto through its writers. The bust of poet Gwendolyn MacEwen, who dropped out of school in 1959 at age 18 to teach ... Read More »

June 22, 2017 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, History

Searching for Petronius Totem

By Peter Unwin

The 21st-century digitized world – replete with technology that allows governments to surveil their own citizens and corporations to engage in ever-more-sophisticated target marketing as a means of selling their customers’ own obsessions back to ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit

By Jessica Raya

Jessica Raya published her first novel, The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club, in 2007 under the pseudonym Jessica Morrison. Ten years later, she returns with her own name and a new book – a politically ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Matter of Geography

By Jasmine D’Costa

Can a story be about immigration if it doesn’t include a single scene set in the adopted country? This is a question that gets tested in Jasmine D’Costa’s first novel, which is set in Bombay. ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Water Beetles

By Michael Kaan

War has been described in so many essentially different ways – as the failure of humanity or the expression of its basest instincts, as outright chaos or an exchange of tactical manoeuvres – that perhaps ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Glass Beads

By Dawn Dumont

Although Glass Beads is billed as a collection of short stories, it works excellently as a panoramic, polyphonic Bildungsroman, following the lives of four Indigenous friends from the early 1990s to the late 2000s. The ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Be Ready for the Lightning

By Grace O’Connell

There is no shortage of artworks that have incorporated motifs from Peter Pan for extra emotional ballast, but I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered one that does so as beautifully as Be Ready for the ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope

By Sharon Butala

Given that the one absolute certainty about life is that it will end, it would make sense for adults to come to psychological terms with the fact of their own deaths and consider the effect ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Barefoot Bingo Caller

By Antanas Sileika

According to the book’s afterword, Antanas Sileika’s new memoir originated in a conversation between the author, his wife, Snaige, and ECW Press co-publisher Jack David at a bar in Windsor, Ontario, during that city’s Bookfest. ... Read More »

June 8, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Walkaway

By Cory Doctorow

In Walkaway, Cory Doctorow – author of the novel Little Brother and co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing – offers a scathing critique of capitalism in the context of a near-future society in which ... Read More »

June 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Arrival: The Story of CanLit

Searching for Petronius Totem

Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit

A Matter of Geography

The Water Beetles

Glass Beads

Be Ready for the Lightning

Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope

★ The Barefoot Bingo Caller

Walkaway

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