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@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead Michelle Sinclair's review of @lizjohnston.bsky.social's The Fall-Down Effect (pub. @bookhugpress.bsky.social) in Issue 36!
...The novel demands answers to thought-provoking questions about ambition and ego, family responsibility and autonomy...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead @bengymen.bsky.social's review of Alan Bleakley and Shane Neilson's The Cost of Living (pub. Artel Press) in Issue 36!
...The question then becomes, what makes a successful collaborative match?...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead @mmeindl.bsky.social's review of Judith Thompson's In Crow's Field (pub. @cormorantbooks.bsky.social) in Issue 36!
In Crow’s Field is a tough book. Its narrator, Ana, is the target of violence from her earliest childhood through her teen years...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead @chalicotherex.bsky.social's review of Don Gillmor's Cherry Beach (pub. @biblioasis.bsky.social) in Issue 36!
Gillmor understands that ... a detective doesn’t carry out his work with the logical deduction of a Sherlock Holmes, but by rattling cages...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of @csuther.bsky.social's Layaway Child (pub. @houseofanansi.bsky.social)!
[These are] short stories with scenes from two lands, and reflections and refractions between, presenting a complex understanding of home...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Katherine Koller's Earthen (pub. @greatplainspress.bsky.social) in Issue 36!
...Another crucial element of scene-building is dialogue, and Koller’s experience as a playwright is on full display...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead Anson Leung's review of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece (pub. @viz.com) in Issue 36!
One Piece is not like other manga. It is very long, detailed, in-depth, and is almost suffocating in terms of the amount of reading one must do to not miss out on key details...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead Salma Hussain's review of JoAnn McCaig's Beneficiary (pub. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social)!
Beneficiary...is an ambitious, introspective work that draws readers in with its complicated main character, its social commentary and its creative structure...
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@bookhugpress.bsky.socialReposted by @thetemzreview.bsky.socialThe Fall Down Effect "takes readers deep into a richly described world, while encouraging them to consider whether they could also do more than just hope.”
Michelle Sinclair reviews @lizjohnston.bsky.social's debut novel for @thetemzreview.bsky.social. www.thetemzreview.com/sinclair-joh...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialIt's very well deserved! 👇
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead Benjamin Haupt's review of Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza's JAWS (pub. Cardboard House Press) in Issue 36!
...Although her language is largely concrete, Mendoza resists tidy resolution in favour of evocative ambiguity...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead Hannah Gardiner's review of Jenny Erpenbeck's Things That Disappear (pub. @ndbooks.bsky.social) in Issue 36!
...Anyone looking for a kind of renewed poetic attention to things will find in Erpenbeck’s new book a worthy companion...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @jenfalkner.bsky.social' Susanna Hall, Her Book (pub. @fishgottaswim.bsky.social) in Issue 36!
...[It] is a compelling read with a ghostly tone and vivid recountings of history that is staying with me...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead D.B.'s review of Patrick Woodcock's Farhang: Book Two (pub. @ecwpress.bsky.social) in Issue 36!
...Woodcock possesses a rare ability to move between philosophical reflection and concrete physical detail without sacrificing momentum...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead @joyceboucharaa.bsky.social's review of Monique Gray Smith's Sharing the Light (pub. @houseofanansi.bsky.social)!
Through stories of gratitude, love, joy, happiness, and hope, she encourages us to seek the light within ourselves and in the world around us
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead @bonnycd.bsky.social's thoughtful review of Alison Gadsby's Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive (pub. Guernica) in Issue 36!
...On paper, Breathing is exactly what I should want from a new short fiction collection coming out in Canada in 2026...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead @bonnycd.bsky.social's review of @kyleflemmer.com's The Wiki of Babel (pub. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social)!
...Flemmer’s particularly pointed filching of a commons resource by and large is not circular, does not stray down dark, dead-ended net-alleys...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead @lisatimpf.bsky.social's interview of Ian Thomas re: Green Islands (pub. Raven Chapbooks) in Iss 36!
I think poetry itself has a special connection to the science of ecology, because to me, poetry is fundamentally ecological in its approach to language...
@thetemzreview.bsky.socialRead Aaliya Sylvia's interview of Elizabeth Urso re: Hail Mary (pub. @simonschusterca.bsky.social)!
[It] began as a single image: a woman teaching at her own alma mater digs up a time capsule and inside is a rosary with teeth strung up like prayer beads...
