by Lindsey | Feb 20, 2025 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Matthew Tétreault’s debut novel, Hold Your Tongue, provides a meditation on the large question of what it means to be Métis through the stories of one family. By playing with language, oral tradition, and family secrets, Tétreault weaves together a charming story...
by Lindsey | Dec 5, 2024 | Book Reviews, Drama
This is a meditation, which is defined as a discourse of considered thoughts on a subject. Here are those thoughts, but I don’t claim to be able to form a pointed discourse in satisfactory paragraphs. So the following isn’t an essay, I guess, but notes, likely...
by Lindsey | Jun 11, 2024 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays
Ariel Gordon’s wonderful new book, Fungal; Foraging in the Urban Forest, isn’t about fungi or mushrooms or even foraging per se. It’s really about mushrooms as obsession, as metaphor and as a glorious pathway into the wonders of nature and the foibles of human nature....
by Lindsey | May 13, 2024 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
In his debut collection, A brief relief from hunger, Spenser Smith explores the edges of longing, revealing the immense human capacity for cruelty and care. On his journey toward acceptance and fulfillment, Smith’s speaker injects drugs, binges fast food, goes through...
by Lindsey | Dec 8, 2023 | Book Reviews, Non-Fiction
Walking is one of the most appropriate ways to appreciate one’s community, environment, and place in the world. And to walk with intention is to listen. As Rebecca Solnit writes: “Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as...
by Lindsey | Nov 8, 2023 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
It’s that time of year again! As the year winds down, the temperature drops and snow covers the ground, the Christmas season lurks. The holiday tunes start a little earlier each year, stores start getting in their Christmas merch in September, and as we get closer to...
