Reviews

The Sustainability Class

The Sustainability Class

A reflection about certain types of “green” rhetoric – and the kinds of people who most avidly support (or police) it.

By Emma Dollery

Sugaring Off

Sugaring Off

Fanny Britt brings her readers on a powerful journey through privilege, belonging, and the search for connection.

By Ashley Fish-Robertson

Small Stories of War

Small Stories of War

This collection examines how young people their families make sense of and navigate war and its aftermath. 

By Taylor C. Noakes

Mainstreaming Porn

Mainstreaming Porn

An in-depth look at the capitalist and corporate backdrop that informs sex and eroticism.

By Sruti Islam

The Capital of Dreams

The Capital of Dreams

Heather O’Neill’s own bold and bewitching words, steeped in symbolism, are as exciting to unpack as an epic dream.

By Kimberly Bourgeois

The Sacred Heart Motel

The Sacred Heart Motel

One of the sheer brilliances of Kwan’s book is turning migration into a love poem and love into a migration.

By Carlos A. Pittella

The Great Right North

The Great Right North

Crucially, the authors try to answer the million-dollar question: what is to be done about the far right in Canada?

By Nora Loreto

It Really Is

It Really Is

Cole Degenstein's graphic novel is an honest reflection on isolation, seasonal depression, the poetry in daily life.

By Sasha Khalimonova

Post-Mortem of the Event

Post-Mortem of the Event

This latest by Klara du Plessis examines a collaborative event and, in doing so, endlessly multiplies it – so the event isn’t dead after all.

By Carlos A. Pittella

Poetry Marching for Sindy

Poetry Marching for Sindy

This is a book of silences: the long blanket of winter, the blank of the page always larger than the poems themselves, the passivity of government.

By Carlos A. Pittella

Opening Ceremony

Opening Ceremony

Amid dark undercurrents that often implicate poet and reader alike, Marciano creates her own rituals.

By Carlos A. Pittella