The Voice's heyday was well before I was a fully-formed human being and I'm not enough of a student of journalism to recognize most of the writers whose voices Tricia…

Christophe Bernard's The Hollow Beast was quite something. A rollicking tale of three generations of haunted men set in the Gaspésie, it was urbane and profane and bawdy. It was…

Some of this quick trip through the evolution of fashion and hip-hop as the two changed each other went over my head since I've only got a passing familiarity with…

I gave this novel by Eva Crocker a three but it's stuck with me for a few days and I'm wondering if it should have been a four? Protagonist Marcy…

I really enjoyed The Light Eaters. Zoë Schlanger's writing is crisp and compelling, and the book is an page-turning compendium of plant behaviours and a thoughtful look at how science…

I think I may have had my fill of AI, algorithm and surveillance capitalism books this year. Filterworld was a bit of a slog and probably could have been an…

This was an easy five-star. Bora Chung's collection of dystopian near-future stories is by turns haunting, funny and occasionally devastating. It was probably inevitable that I'd spend some time with…

Shashi Bhat's collection of short stories explores the lives of her diaspora women characters navigating family, relationships (frequently horrifying ones) and society. I found her at her most compelling condemning…

I won't say much about Kara Swisher's Burn Book. She's clearly smart. Swisher name-checks Maria Ressa as a pioneer in holding Big Data titans accountable, with a passing reference to…

This was an easy five-star. Ward's writing is muscular, focused and elemental. The horrors of slavery wash over and through us in this first-person account of a woman bound literally…