For most of us the end of January marks the in-between of the winter wearies. Yes, we’ve had enough of the bone-pinching cold and relentless grey weather. Thank you. You can go away now. So when you come across an album like Toro Y Moi’s Anything In Return, you’re not only encountering nostalgia for the […]
Chinese immigration is deeply entwined with the development of the West. The labour of new Chinese immigrants, and the subsequent backlash which led to racially charged government mandates are the subjects of David H.T. Wong’s graphic novel Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America. The novel contains a wealth of […]
They say from an outside perspective looking in, everybody’s family is a little weird. Well, in author Andrew Kaufman’s latest novel, Born Weird, his fictional family is so weird, it’s the family surname. In Born Weird, Kaufman weaves an entertaining tale of a family seeking release from its own matriarch, Grandmother Anne Weird. Kaufman’s Born […]
For most of us the end of January marks the in-between of the winter wearies. Yes, we’ve had enough of the bone-pinching cold and relentless grey weather. Thank you. You can go away now. So when you come across an album like Toro Y Moi’s Anything In Return, you’re not only encountering nostalgia for the […] 