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Not Lost, Just Late: Women and the ADHD Awakening
Nowhere Girl, Carla Ciccone. Random House Canada, 2025.
“There’s nothing I love more than intellectualizing my problems rather than confronting them,” writes Carla Ciccone near the end of her reported memoir, Nowhere Girl: Life as a Member of ADHD’s Lost Generation. Not for the first time, I felt bizarrely seen by this smart, vulnerable, and meticulous book.
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Curiosity Elevates This Cait
Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain, Cait Gordon. Dinsdale Press, 2025.
This review is being written under duress. No, Cait Gordon isn’t holding a gun to my head or anything. She’s more subtle than that. Instead, Cait (pronounced “Cat”) went and put together a short story collection so remarkable that anyone reading her book HAS to sing its praises.
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Medicalization is Not Care
Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain, Jaipreet Virdi. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025.
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Love, Death, Disability, and Deer
The Reign, Shane Neilson. icehouse poetry, 2025.
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Hands-free, a writer drags us laughing into the weeds of loss and pain
Look Ma, No Hands, Gabrielle Drolet. McClelland & Stewart, 2025.
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Though Related, Our Echoes Are Not the Same
We Survived the Night, Julian Brave Noisecat. Penguin Random House Canada, 2025.
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A Rich Mourning Journey Guided by a Benign Ghost
In Search of Puffins: Stories of Loss, Light and Flight, Marjorie Simmins. Pottersfield Press, 2025.
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The Road to Nowhere: The Troubled Masculinity of The Passenger Seat
The Passenger Seat, Vijay Khurana. Biblioasis, 2025.
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A Masterclass on The Long Sentence
Planet Earth, Nicholas Ruddock. House of Anansi Press, 2025.
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Sounds From a Black Square
An Orange, A Syllable, Gillian Sze. ECW Press, 2025.
