Reviews

Girlhood: Redefining the Limits

This book begins with the prefatory observation that girls "often have been spoken for and about as a homogenized ...

By Andrea Belcham

North of 9/11

Correct me if I'm wrong, but a little voice tells me that muckraker David Bernans - a "political gadfly," ...

By Richard Wong

The Ratcatcher

The Ratcatcher opens brilliantly, with a fascinating idea, a sensually evoked setting, and striking ...

By Claude Lalumière

The Black Notebook

As indelibly as Mordecai Richler staked a claim to the Jewish Montreal of Mile End, Tremblay's novels, plays, and ...

By Ian McGillis

Bonbons Assortis/Assorted Candies

As indelibly as Mordecai Richler staked a claim to the Jewish Montreal of Mile End, Tremblay's novels, plays, and ...

By Ian McGillis

Dreadful Paris

As the heroine of Dreadful Paris so fluently demonstrates time and time again, photographs are both ...

By Adriana Palanca

Dead Man’s Float

Nathan Gelder has suffered a stroke. Elderly, paralyzed, and unable to communicate, he is accused of murdering the ...

By Sarah Steinberg

Static Control

"The truth. That is your greatest weapon. Just be careful how you use it." Universal truth, universal warning. ...

By Joan Eyolfson Cadham

Last Chance to Renew

That well-known line about God being in the details has never quite rung true to me. Would God really ...

By Joel Yanofsky