BOOK REVIEWS

★ movingparts

In two new collections published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, ancient myths, fables, and texts are transformed, revised, and dreamed of. Edward Carson’s movingparts is focused on the literary points of departure. Prompted by images from ... Read More »

April 12, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

New Songs for Orpheus

By John Reibetanz

April 12, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry

Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada

By Gabriel Allahdua; with Edward Dunsworth

From John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath and Woody Guthrie’s song “Deportee,” to Edward R. Murrow’s 1960 Harvest of Shame broadcast and Canadian filmmaker Min Sook Lee’s documentary Migrant Dreams, the brutal working and ... Read More »

April 12, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

I Love My City

By France Desmarais and Richard Adam; Yves Dumont (ill.); Nicholas Aumais (trans.)

Translated from the French (J’aime ma ville), I Love My City, a nonfiction STEM title, explores every facet of cities: history and evolution, planning and organization, special services, unique architecture, and diverse cultures. For example, ... Read More »

April 12, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Xanax Cowboy

By Hannah Green

In this cinematic debut poetry collection, Hannah Green features the Xanax Cowboy (XC) as the main character of a metadrama of anxiety and its effects. In Green’s impressive character study of existential complexity and ... Read More »

April 5, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Leave My Bones in Saskatoon

By Michael Afenfia

Before arriving at its destination of Saskatoon, Canada, Michael Afenfia’s Leave My Bones in Saskatoon has a layover in Abuja, Nigeria. There, the reader meets Owoicho Adakole, a television presenter, who is at a visa ... Read More »

April 5, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ How to Win a Breakup

By Farah Heron

When Samaya’s boyfriend, Devin, unexpectedly dumps her right before the summer holidays, her volunteer summer job is out of the question (no way is she spending two months with her ex), and she finds herself ... Read More »

April 5, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Rainbow, the Midwife, and the Birds: 4 Dene Tales

By Raymond Yakeleya; Samantha Gibbon; Rich Théroux; and Antoine Mountain (ill.)

The Rainbow, the Midwife, and the Birds: 4 Dene Tales is an illustrated anthology of stories by Dene author Raymond Yakeleya. They include traditional Dene tales, personal stories from Yakeleya’s childhood, and a biography of ... Read More »

April 3, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

there’s more

By Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

In two new poetry collections, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s there’s more and Laila Malik’s archipelago, home is a moving, shifting entity. Umezurike’s first poem opens with the line, “Home is what the tortoise bears on its ... Read More »

March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry