Book Reviews

Samantha Garner’s refreshingly original debut novel, The Quiet Is Loud, explores the grey areas between what we say and what we conceal and the stakes of keeping one’s identity hidden.

A virus rampages, there’s a nuclear strike on Fargo and beer that costs $26. Autonomy is too canny to offer much hope. Some might call it cynical. But Victoria Hetherington writes with a clarity that is the mark of a truly fearless artist

Just as Y2K preppers were disappointed, so too were big music executives who saw their profits crash back to earth thanks an artistic shockwave that found its epicentre in Canada. Hearts on Fire is a tome for anyone nostalgic for the simpler times of the early aughts.

Janet Gallant and Sharon Thesen fuse their poetry and prose in this powerful tale of tragedy and compassion.

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, […]