BOOK REVIEWS

★ Dominoes at the Crossroads

Kaie Kellough’s second book of fiction, the story collection Dominoes at the Crossroads, follows the subversive, polyphonic trail of his novel, Accordéon (a finalist for the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award), and his recent book ... Read More »

September 14, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril

By Thomas Homer-Dixon

“We’re doomed.” Thomas Homer-Dixon, a university research chair in the faculty of environment at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in Victoria, B.C., has been ... Read More »

September 14, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

The League of Super Feminists

By Mirion Malle; Aleshia Jensen (trans.)

How do you explain feminism to a child? As an academic trained in critical theory, this is the question that I assumed would be at the core of Mirion Malle’s The League of Super Feminists, ... Read More »

September 14, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Happy Hour

By Marlowe Granados

Isa Epley wants to learn as much as she can about the world. Sophisticated, adventurous, and somewhat weary, she sees things with a perspective fresher than most. Her meticulously kept diary is littered with thoughtful ... Read More »

September 10, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Barnabus Project

By Devin Fan; Eric Fan; Terry Fan

Since their debut picture book, 2016’s The Night Gardener, bagged a variety of honours and awards, the Fan brothers – who until now have consisted of illustrators Eric and Terry Fan – have moved from ... Read More »

September 10, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt

By Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler (ill.)

September 10, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ The Night Piece: Collected Short Fiction

By André Alexis

The epigraph to André Alexis’s novella, “A,” first published in 2013, is by Margaret Laurence: “Then things become all at once strange.” It’s a fitting sentiment given Alexis’s penchant to allow his fiction to drift ... Read More »

September 3, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age

By Nora Loreto

In Take Back the Fight, Quebec City writer and podcaster Nora Loreto has crafted a meticulous look at how we can address barriers in contemporary Canadian feminist organizing. She defines her feminist framework as one ... Read More »

September 3, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Teatime Around the World

By Denyse Waissbluth and Chelsea O’Byrne (ill.)

Fancy upscale tea parties trace their roots back to the Victorian era, but when the china dolls and miniature cups are packed away and replaced with more grown-up pastimes, the ritual tends to disappear until ... Read More »

September 3, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Changing the Face of Canadian Literature: A Diverse Canadian Anthology

By Dane Swan (ed.)

Editor Dane Swan concludes the introduction to this new anthology of poetry and essays by saying, “Congratulations Canada, you finally have a literature that looks like the people who inhabit you. Do not take this ... Read More »

August 31, 2020 | Filed under: Anthologies, Reviews

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