Fatboy Fall Down

The latest novel by Rabindranath Maharaj – author of last year’s Adjacentland and 2010’s The Amazing Absorbing Boy, which won the Toronto Book Award and the Trillium Book Award – is about a man nicknamed ... Read More »

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

Twitch Force

By Michael Redhill

Twitch Force is Michael Redhill’s first collection of poetry in almost two decades. Before the poetry itself even begins, it is clear that this will not be poetry for the faint of heart. “Force potentiation,” ... Read More »

March 25, 2019 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Orange for the Sunsets

By Tina Athaide

In 1971, nine years after Uganda declared independence, General Idi Amin staged a coup in the African country, seized power, and executed his predecessor’s supporters. In August of 1972, he declared Ugandans of South Asian ... Read More »

March 25, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Stinky Science: Why the Smelliest Smells Smell So Smelly

By Edward Kay and Mike Shiell (ill.)

The Anal Stage, according to Sigmund Freud, is the period during which children – having left behind the nipples and bottles of the oral stage – become fixated on all things butt related. During these ... Read More »

March 21, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Dunk Tank

By Kayla Czaga

The poetry gods claim that a second book is much harder than the first because the bar is set. If a debut collection has received accolades, expectations for the follow-up will be that much higher. ... Read More »

March 21, 2019 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Drolleries

By Cassidy McFadzean

March 21, 2019 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Magnetic Equator

By Kaie Kellough

Montreal author Kaie Kellough follows up his debut novel, Accordéon (a finalist for the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award), with a third book of poetry that is similarly polyphonic, situating angst and ancestry over a ... Read More »

March 18, 2019 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Operatic

By Kyo Maclear and Byron Eggenschwiler (ill.)

Expectations are high for this debut graphic novel from prolific writer Kyo Maclear and Calgary illustrator Byron Eggenschwiler. For publisher Groundwood Books, Operatic follows on the success of huge literary hits Jane, the Fox & ... Read More »

March 18, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Motel of the Opposable Thumbs

By Stuart Ross

According to Freud, a dream is the fulfillment of a wish. A deceptively simple formula that implies a double-pronged question: what manner of wish and how fulfilled? Freud’s answer is somewhat as follows: a repressed, ... Read More »

March 14, 2019 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews