BOOK REVIEWS

Index Cards

A collection of 14 essays, many of them extensions of pieces that originally involved other media, along with several reproductions of photographs, Index Cards is a frequently fascinating, if ultimately exhausting, survey of Toronto-born, New ... Read More »

June 8, 2020 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

★ Rain Boy

By Dylan Glynn

Come rain or shine, many situations in life are beyond our control. Two new picture books by debut authors offer insight into reframing attitudes and considering different perspectives. The titular character in Sunny, by St. ... Read More »

June 4, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Sunny

By Celia Krampien

June 4, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

By Sandra B. Tooze

When it comes to questions of provenance, who wrote Shakespeare’s plays and who wrote the Band’s songs are a couple of oldies but goodies. Famed literary critic Harold Bloom spent his life highly invested in ... Read More »

June 1, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

You Don’t Have to Die in the End

By Anita Daher

Anita Daher’s new novel starts off slow and choppy but by the end has you invested and enthralled. Eugenia Grimm’s father died by suicide and her mother left her soon after. One older brother is a ... Read More »

June 1, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Before the Parade: A History of Halifax’s Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities 1972–1984

By Rebecca Rose

“Though we never met, in many ways Anne Fulton is the reason I am writing this book.” That is the opening of the preface for this thorough and intimate history of the first 12 years ... Read More »

May 28, 2020 | Filed under: History, Reviews

★ Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

By Tessa McWatt

New books by Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt expertly navigate the experience of coming into their respective authors’ identities as Black women. For Martis, finding a community amid isolation slowly strengthens her. For McWatt, the ... Read More »

May 25, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

By Eternity Martis

May 25, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

All I Ask

By Eva Crocker

Who among us can honestly say they’d be free of fear or embarrassment if their phone and laptop were seized and scrutinized by law enforcement? Such is the anxiety-plagued situation of Stacey Power, the protagonist ... Read More »

May 21, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass

By Adan Jerreat-Poole

If the last few seasons of publishing are any indication, we’re in the midst of a 21st-century witch craze. Witchery is hot, and it’s popping up across all publishing and entertainment categories: middle-grade graphic novels, ... Read More »

May 14, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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