Book Review

My Most Secret Desire

Julie Doucet is the shock rocker of cartoonists disguised as a gag-femme hooked on genital and bathroom humour. This hardcover […]

Get A Life

Chronicling the essential Parisian everyman, M. Jean, Get A Life engages with old school Francophone élan, comical, wise, romantic, profoundly […]

Something to Pet the Cat About

Montreal-based Elisabeth Belliveau’s first book, Something to Pet the Cat About, compiles a number of her zine works of the […]

Kill the Robot

MacDonald’s first crack at the graphic novel wields a cold hard punch. What little warmth it holds is from protagonist […]

We Are on Our Own

This is the difficult story of Katin and her mother faking their deaths to escape the Nazi occupation of Budapest […]

Whispers the Missing Child

This book reminded me of Twin Peaks. I was never sure where the plot was going but the oddball characters, […]

Down Sterling Road

It can be difficult for adult authors to write about teenagers. Most of us try to block out the more […]

Bonk on the Head

A Canadian army boy writes about growing up in a military family and entering military college. If you read this […]

Venusia

This is 1984 meets Naked Lunch-pretentious scifi that took too long to read. Government conspiracy/controlled state on the colony of […]

Code White

Code White holds a courageous mirror up to the world of the mentally ill and those in recovery. This is […]

Ladies of the Night

This book of short stories reveals the intimate acts committed under the shade of the moon. But after night comes […]

Mammals

Mammals is the story of Uncle, who, like Pierre Mérot, is a bachelor in his 40s who drinks, fails at […]