Reviews

Chasing Rivers

Chasing Rivers

Tamar Glouberman’s memoir is full of honest, captivating stories about the allure and threat of different forms of risk.

By Dana Bath

Wolf Sonnets

Wolf Sonnets

In concise poetry entrenched in nature and his Métis ancestry, R.P. LaRose provocatively makes the sonnet form his own.

By Robyn Fadden

The Tempest

The Tempest

In Ilona Martonfi’s The Tempest, truths are uncovered, revealing tendrils and roots that reach far outside one life.

By Robyn Fadden

Continent

Continent

In Aaron Boothby’s Continent, documented history and intergenerational storytelling form a subjective mythology.

By Robyn Fadden

The Four-Doored House

The Four-Doored House

Much like the book’s title, there’s more than one way inside Pierre Nepveu’s latest poetic creations, and much goes on within their walls.

By Robyn Fadden

Where I’m Coming From

Where I’m Coming From

Barbara Brandon-Croft's collection of her long-running comic strip represents Black women in all their diversity.

By Esinam Beckley

Movements and Moments

Movements and Moments

A feminist graphic collection spotlights Indigenous women’s stories of fighting for their rights.

By Yara El-Soueidi

The Invitation

The Invitation

Stacey May Fowles' debut picture book suggests ways for kids to deal with social anxiety.

By Meaghan Thurston

Who Owns the Clouds?

Who Owns the Clouds?

Who Owns the Clouds? is a trauma narrative, a complex coming-of-age story, and testimony to the lasting human cost of armed conflict and forced displacement.

By Meaghan Thurston

Sometimes I Feel Like a River

Sometimes I Feel Like a River

Author Danielle Daniel taps into children’s natural abilities to make creative connections between their inner worlds and what they observe around them.

By Meaghan Thurston