There is an exquisite beauty and longing to Desire Lines by Felicity Volk which never departs from the idea that life is a chaos of messy entanglements which none of us can ever quite pull apart. That should be obvious but time and again, society, or at least the shouty Continue Reading
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Book review: The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford
Rather ironically for an age in which difference has rapidly become villified by far too many people looking for a quick, greasy populist win, pop culture is more obsessed with the Other of all stripes than ever before. The creative arts have often celebrated and held up those who differ Continue Reading
Book review: Greenwood by Michael Christie
If you read enough dystopian or apocalyptic literature, and this reviewer most certainly does, you will quickly come to appreciate how many possible ways there are in which humanity could, as a species, shuffle off this mortal coil. Numerous they may be but none are likely as poetic in their Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon
Book reading is, by and large, a blessedly passive activity. Not so for the members of the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club of Montreal, the heartbeat and narrative core of The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon, who see the appreciation of all literature as Continue Reading
Book review: Maggie’s Going Nowhere by Rose Hartley
There is a universal agreement, the exact origins of which are lost to time, that people born into this world will enjoy a fun-filled childhood full of learning and love, somehow survive the confused indignities of the teenage years before moving onto adulthood where they will get a job, find Continue Reading
Book review: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
The finding of yourself is never an easy thing. Oh, some people make it look easy, decided in utero that they will be firefighters or orators or presidents and never once faltering from their prodigious path. But for the rest of us, mere mortals that we are with a lot Continue Reading
Even further back in time … It’s time for stories from Star Wars: The High Republic
SNAPSHOT“‘Star Wars: The High Republic features the Jedi as we’ve always wanted to see them — as true guardians of peace and justice. This is a hopeful, optimistic time, when the Jedi and the Galactic Republic are at their height. But of course, into this glorious new era something wicked Continue Reading
Book review: The Cruel Stars (The Cruel Stars trilogy 1) by John Birmingham
If there’s one theme that emerges loudly and clearly from the genre of science fiction, it’s the idea that for every moment of advancement and rebirth, whether technological or cultural, there’s often a matching cataclysmic moment of destruction. Life has rarely has one without the other and so it makes Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray
While the world seems obsessed with all things apocalyptic at the moment, the truth is that a darker and far more troubling future for humanity is one in which the world doesn’t end so much as slide, ingloriously and with every last shred of idealism shorn from it, into bleak Continue Reading
Book review: Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
Social media is supposed to be the great unifier of far-flung people, like-minded souls and connection-hungry 21st century denizens. And in many ways it is, bring people into contact who might otherwise never meet, spreading ideas that can make the world better and and helping people to feel just that Continue Reading