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...
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...
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...
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...
by prfire | Aug 19, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays
Keetsahnak is an anthology of the truth about missing and murdered indigenous women. Through stories of resilience, pain, heart ache, readers will learn the history and initiatives that have come to light as Canada’s silent genocide of indigenous women. Every...
by prfire | Jul 10, 2019 | Book Reviews, Essays, Non-Fiction
Here’s two reviews that really belong together. Read on! Gush: Menstrual Manifestos for our Times: Eds. Rosanna Deerchild, Ariel Gordon and Tanis MacDonald “I’ll tell you frankly, it’s good to be a Crone, and to use my Crone-honed research abilities to...
