No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change, by Elspeth Cameron

This is a work of non-fiction. All names, places, and events in this book are real. If the author happened to teach you Canadian poetry in university, you may get a little freaked out.
I remember the third year of my undergraduate degree very well; among other adventures, it was the year I took an [...]

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Helpless, by Barbara Gowdy

I stayed up way too late  finishing this book. Thinking back on it now, it’s a wonder I slept at all after that. This book was creepy. Not just roman typeface creepy, but italics creepy. Without being obvious, without giving too much away, and without ever crossing the line into over-detailed descriptions of pedophilia territory, [...]

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Atmospheric Disturbances, by Rivka Galchen

Disclaimer: the following review deals with material that is highly technical, and some might say is lofty, or pretentious, or even cavalier. I liked it anyway.
This is the kind of book that, oddly, made me really glad for my theory background. It might be, actually, one of the only things I’ve encountered that allowed me [...]

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