by Lindsey | Jul 15, 2025 | Book Reviews, Fiction
The world is wide for Felicity Alexander, an opera singer with a “red-hot career.” But as we come to realize throughout Zilla Jones’s debut novel, The World So Wide, in which Felicity plays lead diva, when doors open for you around the world, it’s harder to find one...
by Lindsey | Jun 3, 2025 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
In Scientific Marvel, Chimwemwe Undi, poet, lawyer, and Canada’s 11th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, interrogates the language of care, control, and classification. In an intermingling of poetry and law, Undi dissects the bureaucratic grammars that shape how we...
by Lindsey | Apr 16, 2025 | Book Reviews, News, Non-Fiction
The Unravelling tells the story of Manitoba writer Donna Besel’s pursuit of justice and journey to heal from childhood sexual abuse by her father. Besel focuses on the family destruction and engagement with the courts that follows her disclosure of the abuse. Deft yet...
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....
