BOOK REVIEWS

Naaahsa is an Artist!

A small girl in Alberta spends time with her grandmother whom she refers to in Blackfoot as Naaahsa. Her grandmother is an artist and together they use their imaginations to create – beading, cooking, storytelling, ... Read More »

October 23, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Nights Too Short to Dance

By Marie-Claire Blais; Katia Grubisic (trans.)

Marie-Claire Blais first appeared on the literary landscape fully formed at the age of 20; her debut, La Belle Bête (translated into English as Mad Shadows), caused a furor in her home province of Quebec. ... Read More »

October 18, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada’s Greatest Spy

By Jason Bell

In Cracking the Nazi Code, University of New Brunswick professor Jason Bell describes how Canadian Winthrop Bell (no relation) tried to warn the world about the rise of far-right extremism in Germany after the First ... Read More »

October 18, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

How to Be Found

By Emily Pohl-Weary

Sixteen-year-old Michie and her best friend (a.k.a. “sister”) Trissa grew up together in the dilapidated duplex their single moms own. Over the past few months however, the girls have drifted apart as they find themselves ... Read More »

October 18, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

We the Sea Turtles: A Collection of Island Stories

By Michelle Kadarusman

Most conversations on climate change are beset with a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness. Saving the planet is a tall order. Where does one even begin? What can ordinary folks do about it? Shouldn’t our ... Read More »

October 16, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself

By Rob Goodman

Every Canadian knows the analogy about living next door to the United States: “like sleeping with an elephant,” we are “affected by every twitch and grunt.” The analogy may be well-worn, but the challenge of ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Canada Alone: Navigating the Post-American World

By Kim Richard Nossal

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places

By Christopher Pollon

In a disturbing case of the cure possibly proving as deadly as the disease, Christopher Pollon’s Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places provides an eloquent, clear-eyed warning that, absent a radical ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom

By Khodi Dill and Stylo Starr (ill.)

Author and public speaker Khodi Dill’s latest, stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom, is a book with a purpose: to provide guidance for young racialized people. He employs both his personal experience as ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Adversary

By Michael Crummey

On the acknowledgements page of his gobsmackingly accomplished book The Adversary, Michael Crummey (author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted The Innocents) touches on the “looting and pilfering” that went into the writing of his sixth novel. ... Read More »

October 4, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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