It’s a good feeling to tuck into a novel and know I am in the hands of a master. And that was certainly true with The …
REVIEW: The Only Story by Julian Barnes
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REVIEW: Five Wives by Joan Thomas
I hardly know what to say about Five Wives. I didn’t love it, I didn’t enjoy it, but I certainly admired it. What a magic …
RESPONSE: to “Overdue”
On July 25th, the Globe and Mail published an opinion piece by Kenneth Whyte called “Overdue.”Here’s my response: Taras Grescoe has reacted to Kenneth Whyte’s …
REVIEW: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other is an open-hearted, wise, compassionate, and finely wrought portrait of black womanhood in all its complexity.
REVIEW: Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez
A lot of fine readers I know really liked Vanessa and Her Sister, a fictional recreation of the lives of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. …
REVIEW: I Am A Truck by Michelle Winters
Quirky and strange tale of a Francophone couple whose lives are turned upside down when the husband suddenly disappears from his Silverado truck. Winters presents …
REVIEW: The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher
Julie Schumacher brings back Jason Fitger, the hapless academic hero of Dear Committee Members. Now Fitger finds himself chair of an English department under siege from …
REVIEW: Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
As a millennial interested in all things linguistic, I figured I would end up reading this book eventually when I heard about it on one …