News & Extras
Against the Machine: Luddites by Brian Van Norman
Feb 18, 2020
Against the Machine: Luddites is Brian Van Norman’s third novel, and is a work of historical fiction that takes place in northern England at the beginning of the industrial revolution. The book follows the birth and progression of the Luddite movement, a revolution of workers who protested the adoption of machines which ultimately threatened their jobs in […]
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Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests by Ariel Gordon
Feb 6, 2020
I began reading Ariel Gordon’s Treed a day or two before October’s unseasonal and devastating storm. This storm, which dropped heavy wet snow all over Manitoba, had an immediate and destructive impact on our trees, trees that had been coming to life for me in Gordon’s essays and meditations on their place in our environment and their meaning […]
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river woman by Katherena Vermette
Jan 28, 2020
Intensely political and personal, Katherena Vermette’s second book of poems, river woman, achieves the impact and appeal
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Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel (Kulilu Patki)
Jan 16, 2020
In her introduction to Vera Manuel’s collection Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Plays, Emalene A. Manuel remembers
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Yellow Crane By Susan Gillis
Jan 6, 2020
As I write this review from Halifax, a yellow crane lays crumpled at one of the city’s busiest intersections.
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Ordinary Strangers by Bill Stenson
Dec 19, 2019
‘Ordinary’ and ‘strangers’ are two words that seem contradictory. Yet they fit in this fine book by Bill Stenson, author of Svoboda and Hanne and Her Brothers among others.
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