Review: This is How I Disappear
Mirion Malle highlights problems within mental health that are often overlooked. Imposter syndrome. Difficulties finding professional help. Confronting family. I only cried a little, I swear.
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Review: Porn Work
Every porn scene — and there are millions — is a record of people at work. This is the premise behind Heather Berg’s fascinating account of the labour economies that form the adult entertainment industry.
Review: Stone Fruit
Lee Lai’s Stone Fruit is a shifting story that explores how people grapple to stay together once they’ve reached the goal of escaping a negative environment.
Review: The Quiet Is Loud
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.
Review: Autonomy
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
Review: Hearts on Fire: Six Years That Changed Canadian Music 2000-2005
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.
Review: The Wig-Maker
Janet Gallant and Sharon Thesen fuse their poetry and prose in this powerful tale of tragedy and compassion.
Review: Pond Life
Life in the 21st century can be strange and silly, and Hiller Goodspeed delights in exploring these microcosms in his latest book, Pond Life.
Review: Pizza Punks Collection
A world of crust in this punk guide to pizza pizza pie.
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Honorarium
Honorarium Nathaniel G. Moore, 250 pgs, Palimpsest Press, palimpsestpress.ca, $19.95 CDN What do professional wrestling icon Bret “Hitman” Hart, a […]