Book Reviews

Life in the 21st century can be strange and silly, and Hiller Goodspeed delights in exploring these microcosms in his latest book, Pond Life.

Pizza Punks Collection Cole Pauls, Conundrum Press, conundrumpress.com, $15 As someone who grew up as both a lover of pizza […]

  Recovering Spirits: An Anthology of True Ghost Stories Chapbook, Jill Mandrake (editor), 32 pgs Ghost stories take many forms […]

  Tubes: A Hospital Diary Comic zine, Grace Desmarais, 8 pgs, $7 “My body is a tangled mess,” begins A […]

  Always Brave, Sometimes Kind Katie Bickell, 272 pgs, Touchwood Editions, touchwoodeditions.com, $22 Reading Katie Bickell’s debut novel is a […]

  Your Eye: On Photography Litzine, Alix Hawley, 24 pgs, Woodbridge Farm Books, thewoodbridgefarm.com, $10 Alix Hawley’s zine Your Eye […]

  The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In Edited by Janine Utell, 282 pgs, University Press of Mississippi, […]

  A Diary in the Age of Water: A Novel Nina Munteanu, 328 pgs, Inanna Publications, inanna.ca, $23 Bdelloid rotifers, […]

  Ralph Steadman: A Life in Ink Ralph Steadman, 320 pgs, Chronicle Chroma, chroniclebooks.com, $77 Ralph Steadman has been developing […]

  The Dripping Boat Julian Lawrence, 64 pgs, Conundrum Press, conundrumpress.com, $12 An odd little man with a water droplet […]

  Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy Christian McPherson, 278 pgs, At Bay Press, atbaypress.com, $25 You know those […]

  The Lightning of Possible Storms Jonathan Ball, 209 pgs, Book*hug Press, bookhugpress.ca, $20 Imagine an author dedicates his novel […]