Review of Monica Kidd’s “The Crane”
By Jonathan Greenbaum The Crane by Monica Kidd Breakwater Books (2025) Over the years several Canadian novelists have written about Americans who fled to Canada to evade the draft in…
Review of Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s “Wish Maker”
By Kendall Bistretzan Wish Maker by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Masobe Books (2025) Wish Maker by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is a charming juvenile fiction book full of magical realism, relatable characters,…
Review of Wade Davis’ “Beneath the Surface of Things”
By Michael Frey Beneath the Surface of Things by Wade Davis Greystone Books (2024) Wade Davis’ latest essay collection “Beneath” offers a social perspective in both subject and style. Lying…
Review of Rod Moody-Corbett’s “Hides”
By Vivian Hansen Hides by Rod Moody-Corbett Breakwater Books (2024) He is unnamed. But he is well known to us. We have sat in his classroom, shared his bench at…
Review of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “The Serviceberry”
By Vivian Hansen The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer Simon & Schuster (2024) I pluck the easy-going Saskatoon berries, a few sacrificial ones…
Review of Darlene Barry Quaife’s “The Primitives”
By Lori Hahnel The Primitives by Darlene Barry Quaife Friesen Press (2024) The Spanish Civil War of 1936 – 1939 has inspired the work of a great many writers and…
Review of Leanne Shirtliffe’s “The Genius Hour Project”
By Kendall Bistretzan The Genius Hour Project by Leanne Shirtliffe Thistledown Press (2024) The Genius Hour Project is a middle-grade novel that follows eleven-year-old Frazzy, a quirky and scatterbrained girl…
Review of Ariel Gordon’s “Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest”
By Michael Frey Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon Wolsak and Wynn (2024) It’s all there in the subtitle, Foraging in the Urban Forest. In Ariel Gordon’s…
Review of Ben Berman Ghan’s “The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits”
By Samantha Purchase The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by Ben Berman Ghan Wolsak & Wynn (2024) ‘Imagine’ opens Ben Berman Ghan’s expansive and timely novel, The Years Shall Run…
Review of Carmelo Militano’s “The Patina of Melancholy”
By Caterina Edwards The Patina of Melancholy by Carmelo Militano Ekstasis Editions (2023) Where does your need to make art come from? What sustains that urge when you are no…