Book Reviews

Porn. It’s something I’ve actually thought about quite a bit. I studied it in high school Social Justice class and did a nice little oral

When I sat down to read Randi Zuckerberg’s Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, I decided to attempt just that: untangling my own wired life,

To say present day 7-12-year-old girls have anything in common with 19th century male body builders would be a stretch. A big, hulking one. Yet

Since the 1980s, Robert Lepage has been at the forefront of new media performance art. He has brought his multi-disciplinary productions to audiences around the

The author of novels such as Microserfs, Girlfriend in a Coma and Eleanor Rigby is back with his latest literary creation Worst. Person. Ever. I

Many of the authors who participated in the Vancouver International Writers Festival this year are celebrated for writing unusual and interesting characters. The writers themselves

“I guess I’m a hybrid, as I am in so many other ways. An essayteller. A storicist. In my family, it’s pronounced loudmouth.” This is

Canadian writer Sarah de Leeuw believes sex is as fundamental as eating, drinking and sleeping but that somehow, there is a lack of writing on

“You can’t be afraid to read your own writing,” Amber Dawn says. The local poet and award-winning author tells herself this before doing public readings.

I cracked open Jeet Heer’s In Love With Art: Françoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman without reading the synopsis on the back (you

The Shining is probably the one novel in Stephen King’s canon that transcends all the others. Even if you’ve never read the book, I’m sure