by prfire | Jul 22, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Theatre
In Indian Act: Residential School Plays, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard (Ed.) calls the residential school system a “dark spectre” upon the Canadian landscape (pg. x) The system of residential schools that existed for 150 years until the last school closed in 1996 has...
by prfire | Jul 10, 2019 | Book Reviews, Essays, Non-Fiction
Here’s two reviews that really belong together. Read on! Gush: Menstrual Manifestos for our Times: Eds. Rosanna Deerchild, Ariel Gordon and Tanis MacDonald “I’ll tell you frankly, it’s good to be a Crone, and to use my Crone-honed research abilities to...
by prfire | Jun 20, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The Air is Elastic, Ella Zeltserman’s second poetry collection, is a yearning journey through time and space. Perhaps her greatest accomplishment is her ability to vividly capture the essence of the collection’s many locales which include Cold War Soviet Russia...
by prfire | Jun 6, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Marriage. We make jokes about it. We have names for it such as jumping the broom, vows, a socially recognized union, a sanctioned contract. A match. But what does a marriage entail? Celebration. Despair. Or more. Early in Kathy Page’s novel, Dear Evelyn, David...
by prfire | May 24, 2019 | Book Reviews, Graphic Novel
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike. The strike lasted 42 days, involved around 35000 workers, and took place in the shadow of both widespread strikes in North America and worker’s revolutions in Russia and Germany. It represents...
by prfire | May 14, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction
Shawna Lemay’s The flower can always be changing opens with an essay on the life and death and life of flowers filmed in time lapse photography. She writes, “The colours. The fading. The beauty of decline, the simplicity. All of the attendant moods arrive and pass in...
