I Become a Delight to My Enemies

The ambitious genre mashup of Sara Peters’s I Become a Delight to My Enemies is described by its publisher as “experimental fiction.” This is a somewhat catch-all term; in the current case, Peters combines poetry ... Read More »

June 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Poetry, Reviews

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

By Samra Habib

In her debut memoir, author Samra Habib writes with lucidity and sensory depth, taking care to maintain the specificity of her experience without resorting to cultural absolutes. We Have Always Been Here traces the author’s ... Read More »

June 3, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Love from A to Z

By S.K. Ali

In her second novel, S.K. Ali strikes a balance between charming love story and issue-driven narrative, in which Muslim teen characters confront and overcome Islamophobia, racism, and ignorance. Love from A to Z follows protagonists ... Read More »

June 3, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Your Life Is Mine

By Nathan Ripley

It would likely take a team of graduate students to determine exactly why this is occurring now, but interest in cults, their members, and leaders – always somewhat in the background – has once again ... Read More »

June 3, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Every Little Piece of Me

By Amy Jones

In her follow-up to her 2016 debut novel, We’re All in This Together, Amy Jones showcases her winning blend of sardonic humour and melancholy in a story about two young women who are both victims ... Read More »

May 30, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

By Amy Fung

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

Papergirl

By Melinda McCracken with Penelope Jackson

On May 15, 1919, some 30,000 workers in Winnipeg walked off the job to protest poor living wages and demand collective bargaining. Two new middle-grade novels bring the general strike, a watershed event, to light ... Read More »

May 15, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books