Daddy LessonsSteacy EastonCoach House Press, 2023 Review by Roz Milner Growing up queer in the Canadian prairies can be hard enough, but for someone who’s neurodivergent, it can be almost impossible to imagine. How does one navigate lines of...
This Time, That PlaceClark BlaiseBiblioasis, 2022 Review by Brandon Fick Who is Clark Blaise? Even some of the biggest literary aficionados may not be able to answer that question, yet This Time, That Place: Selected Stories goes a long...
Her Body Among AnimalsPaola FerranteBook*hug Press, 2023 Review by Deborah Vail “… Kitty was less afraid of the man attacking her than of the people attacking her for being whatshe was, a woman who worked in a bar coming...
The BrickworksLucy E.M. Black Now or Never Publishing, 2023 Review by Hollay Ghadery The challenge with writing historical fiction is not just taking the past and bringing it to life, but making it immediate. As immediate as the page in...
South Babak LakghomiDundurn Press, 2023 Review by Simon Lowe Babak Lakghomi’s sharp-edged, jewel-like novel, South, cuts as cleanly as it sparkles. A minimalist, literary dystopia recalling the sparse, unexplained mysteries of JG Ballard’s early catastrophe novels, South charts the hallucinatory...
DancesNicole CuffyOne World, 2023 Review by Jasmine Morris Nicole Cuffy’s debut novel is a story brimming with vivid prose that weaves together threads of artistic ambition, black womanhood, and a complex internal journey. Cuffy charts how an uncomplicated dream...
Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the ForestAmanda LewisGreystone, 2023 Review by Kim Trainor We are surrounded by some of the most beautiful and ancient trees on the planet, yet many of us on the west...
A Safe Girl to LoveCasey PlettArsenal Pulp Press, 2023 Review by Roz Milner For a few years, Casey Plett’s first book, A Safe Girl to Love, was hard to find. Originally published by Topside Press almost a decade ago,...
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil SandsKate BeatonDrawn and Quarterly, 2022 Review by Ellie Eberlee The headline published May 1, 2008, by the New York Times, read as follows: “Canadians Investigate Death of Ducks at Oil-Sands Project.” The article...