A “thoughtful and provocative account of masculine aesthetics in gay male culture” focusses on a seminal Toronto-based community newspaper. In doing so, its author “has created a valuable resource on the evolution of masculinity and libido in queer sexuality.” —Daniel Gawthrop reviews Liberation and Libido: Masculinity, Sexuality, and the Aesthetics of Gay Liberation in Canada, 1971–1987, by Nicholas A. Hrynyk (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2026) $32.95 / 9781487507077
A “first novel from an author short-listed for the Giller Prize … is an extraordinary work—inventive, eclectic, heartfelt, playful, angry, often brilliantly written, mingling myth and actuality, with characters waking from various ‘dreams’ into various realities.” —Harvey De Roo reviews Variations on a Dream, by Angélique Lalonde (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2026) $26.95 / 9780771012600
From Left to Right: Maternalism and Women’s Political Activism in Postwar Canada by Brian Thorn Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016 $32.95 / 9780774832090 Reviewed by Lisa Pasolli First published Feb. 19, 2017 * Canadian women, far from being trapped in suburban homes and domesticity in the late 1940s and 1950s, were active across the political spectrum…
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