Reviews

An Illustrated History of Quebec

rom the Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act of 1774 up to Bill 101 and Bill 22, and the CEQ and the FTQ, the ...

By Dane Lanken

A Message for the Emperor

ark Frutkin’s new novel, A Message for the Emperor, set during the last days of China’s Song Dynasty ...

By Joel Yanofsky

So Long

ans amour on n’est rien de tout. So sang Edith Piaf, whose love life was notoriously ...

By Claire Holden Rothman

Listen, Honey

helley Leedahl’s latest book, Listen, Honey, is proof positive that the old adage “never judge a book by ...

By Sarah Lolley

Entry Level

umdrum and toil. That’s the context for Julie McIsaac’s first collection of short stories, Entry Level. ...

By Lori Callaghan

Mister Roger and Me

or children, cartoon characters not only offer entertainment, but also provide a vision, however ...

By Heather Leighton

Maleficium

ot since the matchbook-sized publication of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám has such a ...

By Rob Sherren

Against the Wind

 t age 11, Joseph walks in on his mother being raped and stabs the man to death. In true Oedipal ...

By Crystal Chan

Leper Tango

 don’t know what it is about whores. Or, more to the point, what it is about men who are obsessed with them, like ...

By David Homel

Literary Pyrotechnics

French-speaking kids have made Amos Daragon a phenomenon and Perro has written twelve books chronicling Amos’s ...

By B. A. Markus

The City’s Gates

The City’s Gates

The end result is a philosophical, metafictional work whose form is as quirky as its characters.

By Kimberly Bourgeois

Cures for Hunger

Cures for Hunger

Growing up in rural British Columbia, Deni idolizes his Dad, his stories, his old “Indian” tricks, and his perilous adventures.

By Ami Sands Brodoff