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Maureen Medved’s Black Star
Reviewed by Alex Good
Reviewed by Alex Good
“Black Star” is one of the better entries in a string of recent novels featuring protagonists losing their grip on reality.
Author Emily Donaldson
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“Alice & Charles”
by Camilla Grudova
by Camilla Grudova
“His wig and the heels of his clown shoes added some height, but Alice could reach his throat in a moment, if need be.”
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Knife | Fork | Book
by Michael Melgaard
by Michael Melgaard
Classes, conversations, and readings are the lifeblood of Toronto’s poetry-only bookshop.
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People’s Co-Operative Bookstore by Michael Melgaard
Though it has strayed from its 1940s communist roots, Vancouver’s Co-op Books still prides itself on its progressive, left-leaning approach.
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Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal & Nick de Pencier’s Anthropocene
reviewed by Patricia Robertson
reviewed by Patricia Robertson
Anthropocene, the book, embodies the moral and aesthetic contradictions of the project as a whole.
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Heidi Sopinka’s The Dictionary of Animal Languages
Reviewed by Patricia Robertson
Reviewed by Patricia Robertson
Animal sentience has become a hot topic in recent fiction, and none too soon. At a time when science is showing that animals do indeed have language—a recent study of canebrake wrens suggests that birdsong is governed by a complex, learned set of social rules, much like human communication—it’s encouraging to see more fiction that
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Cameron Anstee’s Book of Annotations
and Alice Major’sWelcome to the Anthropocene
Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman
and Alice Major’sWelcome to the Anthropocene
Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman
Cameron Anstee’s “Book of Annotations” and Alice Major’s “Welcome to the Anthropocene.”
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“Quiddity”
by Kevin Spenst
by Kevin Spenst
Step onto crunching parchment, hold out hands, and press the hallway walls as codices to down- stairs. As if the…
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Liz Harmer’s The Amateurs
Reviewed by JC Sutcliffe
Reviewed by JC Sutcliffe
Liz Harmer’s sharp-eyed debut harnesses our high-tech fears to masterful effect.
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“Missed Call”
by Annick MacAskill
by Annick MacAskill
The house sparrow carries sunlight in her beak. Consider the mystery—the slight frame burgeoning with hymns against the backdrop of…