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Hey Porter
by Cecil Foster
by Cecil Foster
How Canada’s Black sleeping-car porters became agents of social change.
Author Ellie Hastings
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The Hudson’s Bay Company Is Evil
by Brian Busby
by Brian Busby
A caninocidal Hudson’s Bay Company is the villain in this Jack London-inspired tale by Canada’s greatest pulp-fiction writer.
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Lori McNulty’s Life on Mars
Reviewed by Mark Sampson
Reviewed by Mark Sampson
It was author Russell Smith, I think, who made an astute observation in one of his Globe and Mail columns…
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Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau’s Winter Child
Reviewed by JC Sutcliffe
Reviewed by JC Sutcliffe
The death of a child is an experience that most of us—parents especially—cannot bear to imagine, and certainly cannot imagine…
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Gillian Best’s The Last Wave
Reviewed by Rohan Maitzen
Reviewed by Rohan Maitzen
“Why am I here?” John Roberts asks Martha, his wife of over fifty years, as they stand on the rocky…
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Marianne Apostolides’ Deep Salt Water
Reviewed by André Forget
Reviewed by André Forget
It would be hard to overstate the chances Marianne Apostolides takes in her new memoir, Deep Salt Water, which twins…
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Dennis Lee’s Heart Residence: Collected Poems 1967–2017
Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman
Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman
Kingdom of Absence, Dennis Lee’s first book of poetry, was published fifty years ago in 1967 and has never been…
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Endings
by Pierre Nepveu
(Translated by Donald Winkler)
by Pierre Nepveu
(Translated by Donald Winkler)
It would require a great bed of silence. We would be alone with the shadows, the childhood rocks, the woods…
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Pasha Malla’s Fugue States
Reviewed by Alex Good
Reviewed by Alex Good
Fugue States is a real oddity of a novel, but one that makes you wonder how much of its oddness…
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The Backsides of White Souls
by Ronald L. Grimes
by Ronald L. Grimes
An American Canadian wrestles with family and racism in the age of Trump.