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For those growing a Movember moustache, may the month be fruitful — and may the books we feature nurture more than follicular ambition. In this issue, we review an anthology that examines Palestinian activism and its repression in Canada, a speculative family saga set against the tightening grip of authoritarianism, poetry that carves a path from rupture to resilience, fiction s...
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Before picking up a copy of Razing Palestine , it is worth considering what this anthology is—and what it is not. It is not a collection of literary short stories, nor a volume of meticulously footnoted analysis; readers seeking either of those will find them amply elsewhere. Instead, the book gathers first-hand testimonies from Canadians who have con...
Five Points on an Invisible Line , is the sequel to Cycling to Asylum (recently re-issued as The Invisible Line ). In it, author Su Sokol returns to the Wolfes, an American family of four, who had bicycled from Brooklyn, New York, across the border into Canada. The setting is the probably not-too-distant future, where the US, for many reasons, has become more authoritarian. The ...
Reviewed by Deborah-Anne Tunney I have always felt poems in the confessional tradition to be the most generous. Their honesty demands the poet takes the reader into their confidence and allows them to see something of the personal, culled from the poet’s own experiences. In this process, the reader’s perception is broadened, their empathy expanded. In her remarkable book, Ajar: ...
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin Phaedra Luck may be no Greek princess like her mythical namesake, but she’s one fierce female protagonist. When we first meet “Fade” she’s sleeping rough in a cemetery. Like her missing great aunt Madeline, Fade survives on society’s fringes, woven into nature like other wild things—wolves, women, rabbits, and black bears. From the dark, disturbing prolo...
