Reviews

So Long Sad Love

So Long Sad Love

Mirion Malle's book resonates with the familiar feeling of wanting to accept easy answers, while also having to learn to listen to yourself.

By Ashton Diduck

Arsenic mon amour

Arsenic mon amour

Québécois writers Jean-Lou David and Gabrielle Izaguirré-Falardeau weave a tapestry of longing and rejection, nostalgia and despair.

By Emma Dollery

Shattered Stages

Shattered Stages

Three new plays –Trench Patterns, Shorelines, and Blackout – remind us that the past is prelude to present quandaries.

By Jim Burke

Our Lady of Mile End

Our Lady of Mile End

Sarah Gilbert considers the consequences of gentrification, and how the places we inhabit shape our relationships.

By Ariella Kharasch

The Lost Supper

The Lost Supper

Grescoe shuttles the reader between the foodways of antiquity and the front lines of sustainable agriculture.

By Adam Hill

Buzz Kill

Buzz Kill

A deeply researched, thought-provoking account of the bureaucratic, social, and ethical mess of cannabis legalization.

By JB Staniforth

Furniture Music

Furniture Music

Montreal-based poet Gail Scott's experimental prose memoir archives the ordinary in the midst of upheaval.

By Aishwarya Singh