Literary Review of Canada
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This week’s Bookworm is out of this world! Read Julie Sobowale on DeMar DeRozan’s “Above the Noise” (HarperCollinsCa) and Susan E. Walker on Pat Ferns’s “The Big Picture” (Sutherland House). Plus, check out our reviews of the Giller Prize long list. reviewcanada.substack.com/p/bookworm-no-…
“Tennison’s reminiscences are bathed in the sepia tones of nostalgia that tend to colour our memories, whether we grew up poor or not.” Inside the October issue: Cecily Ross on @rosalietennison’s “Naomi’s Houses,” published by Heritage House. reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/…
“If we can’t truly go home again, Boudel Tan suggests, it’s because we’re always already there.” In Literary Review of Canada, Kevin Shaw reviews Eddy Boudel Tan’s new novel, “The Tiger and the Cosmonaut” - reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/…
Bet on Bookworm! This week features Ted Fraser on Elizabeth Quinlan’s “Standing Up to Big Nickel” (McGill-Queen's University Press), Selena Mercuri on Lee Lai’s “Cannon” (Drawn & Quarterly), and a Q&A with our October cover artist, Mateusz Napieralski. reviewcanada.substack.com/p/bookworm-no-…
“Societal opinion had shifted not just musical tastes but the creation of the instrument into the realm of art.” J. R. Patterson reviews Tom Wilder’s “A Cultural History of the Violin in Nineteenth-Century London,” published by Boydell & Brewer. reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/…
“What is the right way to understand the relationship between art and life, beauty and politics anyway?” Rohan Maitzen reviews Katherine Ashenburg’s latest novel, “Margaret’s New Look,” a political fashion mystery published by Knopf Canada. reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/…
Give Bookworm a shot! No. 116 features Sophia Ohler on Nina Dunic’s “Suddenly Light” (Invisible Publishing), Grace Henkel on “The Place of Objects” (Figure 1 Publishing), and poetry by Selena Mercuri. Click the link below to read and subscribe for free. reviewcanada.substack.com/p/bookworm-no-…
“As long as we live in a time and place in which heterosexuality remains compulsory, to paraphrase Adrienne Rich, coming out stories will matter.” Inside the October issue: Kevin Shaw reviews Eddy Boudel Tan’s “The Tiger and the Cosmonaut” (Viking Books). reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/…
Bookworm delivers reviews with precision! This week’s edition features The Eccentric Wallflower on Judith Pond’s “That’s Where You Were, Then” (Freehand Books), Titilola Aiyegbusi on Cecilia Dick DeRose’s “One Arrow Left” (Caitlin Press), and poetry by Anna Mark. reviewcanada.substack.com/p/bookworm-no-…
The latest issue of Literary Review of Canada is out. I have a review of Keegan Matheson's A Curated History of the Toronto Blue Jays published by Triumph Books. #BlueJays reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/…
“The team has carved out a significant place in the country’s sports history.” Inside the November issue: J.D.M. Stewart reviews “Toronto Blue Jays,” an informative and nostalgic book on Canada’s beloved MLB team by Keegan Matheson. reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/…
Let Bookworm take you up! Read Emily Mernin on Chyana Marie Sage’s “Soft As Bones” (House of Anansi Press), Lou Braibant on @reneecbelliveau’s “A Sense of Things Beyond” (Nimbus Publishing), and a page from Lyndal Roper’s “Summer of Fire and Blood” (Basic Books UK). reviewcanada.substack.com/p/bookworm-no-…
Our November 2025 issue? Clearly, it’s the kind of issue that draws a crowd (with a cover by Alanna Cavanagh). Already reading? Tag us with your favourite piece from the issue. Not yet? Take $10 off an annual subscription by clicking the link below. store.reviewcanada.ca/discount/TAKE1…
