BOOK REVIEWS

★ The Company We Keep

If nothing else, Frances Itani’s latest novel shows the utter importance of community. Such a message is ironically timely, given the current need for physical distancing during a global pandemic. But Itani’s book is much ... Read More »

September 28, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence

By Jonathan Manthorpe

By now, everybody knows that Francis Fukuyama got it wrong. When he declared, in his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, that the fall of the U.S.S.R. and the Berlin Wall ... Read More »

September 28, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Maurice and His Dictionary: A True Story

By Cary Fagan and Enzo Lord Mariano (ill.)

Maurice and His Dictionary is a distinguished non-fiction graphic novel from Toronto author Cary Fagan, based on his father’s experience during the Holocaust. In 1940 Brussels, following the Nazi invasion, 14-year-old Maurice and his family ... Read More »

September 28, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ A History of My Brief Body

By Billy-Ray Belcourt

In his highly anticipated memoir, Billy-Ray Belcourt – the youngest winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize – proves yet again his astonishing linguistic precision and beauty. Reimagining the form and structure of a conventional memoir, ... Read More »

September 24, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Reviews

My Day with Gong Gong

By Sennah Yee and Elaine Chen (ill.)

The adorable My Day with Gong Gong follows a little girl, May, who’s sullen about having to spend the day alone with her grandpa, or gong gong as she calls him in Cantonese. He doesn’t ... Read More »

September 24, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Barry Squires, Full Tilt

By Heather Smith

The tendency to make everyone and everything in Newfoundland seem good-natured, offbeat, and comical has become a fatiguing stereotype and it somewhat tempers enjoyment of the first bit of Barry Squires, Full Tilt. But in ... Read More »

September 21, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

How to Lose Everything

By Christa Couture

Christa Couture is a singer-songwriter, author, and broadcaster. She is Cree and Scandinavian. She is a mother. She is disabled. She is, as she puts it, “every parent’s worst nightmare.” Couture’s debut memoir details a ... Read More »

September 17, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ No Vacancy

By Tziporah Cohen

In this provocative contemporary middle-grade novel, Tziporah Cohen introduces readers to 11-year-old Miriam and her family as they move to Greenvale, New York, to run the Jewel Motor Inn. Even as she helps to fix ... Read More »

September 17, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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