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The Year of No Summer: A Reckoning by Rachel Lebowitz
In The Year of No Summer, Rachel Lebowitz weaves history, mythology, folklore and personal experience into a vibrant lyric essay. Letters from the frontlines of World War I, grim tales about famine, Greek legends, reflections on tourism, museums, and motherhood are...
Indian Act: Residential School Plays, Ed. Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
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...
Double Review! Gush: Menstrual Manifestos for our Times by Rosanna Deerchild, Ariel Gordon and Tanis MacDonald (eds.) & Writing Menopause by Jane Cawthorne & E.D. Morin (eds.)
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...
The Air is Elastic by Ella Zeltserman
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...
Dear Evelyn by Kathy Page
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...
1919: a Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike by The Graphic History Collective and David Lester
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...