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Fungal: Foraging In the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon

Fungal: Foraging In the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon

by Lindsey | Jun 11, 2024 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays

Ariel Gordon’s wonderful new book, Fungal; Foraging in the Urban Forest, isn’t about fungi or mushrooms or even foraging per se. It’s really about mushrooms as obsession, as metaphor and as a glorious pathway into the wonders of nature and the foibles of human nature....
Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, Eds. Andrew Chesham and Laura Farina

Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, Eds. Andrew Chesham and Laura Farina

by Lindsey | May 18, 2023 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays

Books about the craft of writing often make big promises. Typically written for an audience of aspiring authors who long for the guidance of an expert, a lot of writing craft books insist that they hold the secret key to helping unlock the novels, stories, poems, and...
Bread & Water: Essays by dee Hobsbawn-Smith

Bread & Water: Essays by dee Hobsbawn-Smith

by Lindsey | Dec 15, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays

Dee Hobsbawn-Smith’s Bread & Water is a bittersweet love letter to the prairies, her Hutterite ancestors, her family, and the deeper hungers they satisfy. The essay collection, which won the Saskatchewan Book Awards’ Non-Fiction Prize, includes Prairie Fire’s 2018...
Best Canadian Essays 2020, Edited by Sarmishta Subramanian

Best Canadian Essays 2020, Edited by Sarmishta Subramanian

by Lindsey | May 12, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays, Non-Fiction

Last year, the Covid-19 pandemic opened a schism that marks what many people now consider a “before and after.” The before: concerts, commutes, handshakes, birthday candles. The after: masks, six foot separations, grocery store line-ups, Zoom. March 2021 marks...
Reverberations: A Daughter’s Meditations on Alzheimer’s by Marion Agnew

Reverberations: A Daughter’s Meditations on Alzheimer’s by Marion Agnew

by Lindsey | Feb 18, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays, Non-Fiction

Marion Agnew didn’t want to write about her brilliant, often formidable, mother. Instead, she wanted to save her. But as it became clear that was impossible, she began to write, searching for ways to understand and accept her mother even as the person she’d once been...
Against the Machine: Luddites by Brian Van Norman

Against the Machine: Luddites by Brian Van Norman

by prfire | Feb 18, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays

Against the Machine: Luddites is Brian Van Norman’s third novel, and is a work of historical fiction that takes place in northern England at the beginning of the industrial revolution. The book follows the birth and progression of the Luddite movement, a...
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