PANICLE By Gillian Sze ECW Press (September 2017) 90 pages, $18.95 (Paperback) REVIEWED BY KATHY NGUYEN A panicle is a loose cluster of flowers, often used in reference to oats. …
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ORACLE BONE By Lydia Kwa Arsenal Pulp Press (October 1 2017) 304 pages, $18.95 (Paperback) REVIEWED BY WILLIAM THAM Firstly, a confession: I don’t know much about martial arts, …
“Someone once compared my skin colour to a nicotine stain. They weren’t interested in a date. They told me to go back to China,” so opens Project Gelb, a documentary …
The experimental “In Sundry Languages” proudly proclaims itself as a multilingual drama that requires no translation. The director, Art Babayants, trusts his audience to be able to appreciate …
a place called No Homeland By Kai Cheng Thom Arsenal Pulp Press (2017) 83 pages, $14.95 (Paperback) REVIEWED BY DAVID LY Kai Cheng Thom’s a place called No Homeland is a …
Written by Anna Wang Yuan I was born in China and immigrated to Canada in 2006. In 2012, I went back and lived in China for another three years as …
Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) and his son Shingo (Taiyo Yoshizawa) Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s new film, After the Storm, is a stripped-down meditation on lives gone wrong and family relationships in a quiet …
My mother, then fox. The Yangs, Anjuin. Even Miss Morris. They had all made decisions on my behalf. It had been necessary, I knew that. I had been a helpless …
The appearance of the highly anticipated new CBC television show, Kim’s Convenience (KC), has received critical acclaim for being authentic, funny, and ground-breaking since airing in October this year. It is …
“Do Not Say We Have Nothing”, by Madeleine Thien, is a powerful and passionate novel, skillfully interwoven with rhythmic words to present a dynamic reading experience, similar to a fight …