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Maya Khankhoje

Book Review

Fear the Mirror

Maya Khankhoje

I will say it outright: Fear the Mirror, Cora Siré’s newly minted collection of linked short stories, is the most emotionally satisfying book that I have read in a long time. The author takes readers through the aftermath […]

Book Review

Navigating the Climate Crisis

Maya Khankhoje

Ann Eriksson’s Urgent Message from a Hot Planet is a heartfelt plea for all of us to do our bit, however little, to save the planet from global warming. In fact, author Eriksson contends that the term “climate […]

Book Review

El Tamalito

Maya Khankhoje

Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda wrote a passionate ode to the humble onion, acknowledging its importance as a staple food both for poor and rich. Marie Antoinette showed up her (wilful?) ignorance when she urged her subjects to eat […]

Book Review

When the Light of the World Was Subdued: Review and Commentary

Maya Khankhoje

It is a celebration of the oral and spiritual traditions of the first poets of what today is known as the United States of America

Short Story

The Emperor and the Crab

Maya Khankhoje

Today is a rainy, slushy, windy, still-winter grey day, and my mood matches the weather.

Book Review

Takewing a.m.

Maya Khankhoje

TAKEWING a.m., written and Illustrated by Brenda J. Wilson. FriesenPress, 348 pages TAKEWING a.m. is Brenda J. Wilson’s first novel, although she has a long track record as a media producer, librarian, photographer and educator. She also wears […]

Essay

Where Science Meets Art and Becomes One

Maya Khankhoje

The zeitgeist of our times is characterized by creativity and innovation, particularly in the fields of art and science. A question often pondered is where these two fields intersect. Do they touch each other at a tangent? Do […]

Poetry

Cheeky Mathematics

Maya Khankhoje

Cheeky Mathematics He and she fuse their cells with the sticky glue of their warm juices Two cells become one which then divides and multiplies until one plus one adds up to ten perfect little toes Baby trades […]

Film Review

Quentura

Maya Khankhoje

The 29th edition of the Montréal First Peoples Festival (Présence autochtone) unfolded from August 6 to August 14. On this occasion, it celebrated diversity and creativity through a combination of visual arts, film, music, song, poetry and gastronomy. It […]

Book Review

“Me Artsy”

Maya Khankhoje

Me Artsy, compiled and edited by Drew Hayden Taylor Douglas & McIntyre, 2015 (256 pages) The best way to enter into the spirit of this luminous collection of essays is to quote what Drew Hayden Taylor, its compiler and […]

Book Review

A review of Kingdom of Olives and Ash

Maya Khankhoje

Kingdom of Olives and Ash, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, 2017, HarperCollins Publishers, 448 pages The “land of milk and honey” generally refers to the promised land of Jewish tradition. As a notion, it denotes a […]

Book Review

A Review of Jonny Appleseed

Maya Khankhoje

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead, 2018, Arsenal Pulp Press (Vancouver), 223 pages Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit /Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty). He is also the author of full metal-indigiqueer and winner of the […]

Editorial

Decolonizing Voices

Maya Khankhoje

Territorial integrity is not the only marker of independence

Book Review

Review of Blackbird Song

Maya Khankhoje

“The walk is a journey of the spirit carried by the body like a good friend, and sitting is an important part of the walking.”

Book Review

Review of Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids: Quebec Inuit Fight for Their Homeland

Maya Khankhoje

Nungak delivers an often humorous, in-your-face account of the history of Nunavik

Book Review

A review of Evening Primrose

Maya Khankhoje

In her personal life, her friendship with a Zimbabwean fellow doctor earns her a brutal “correction” from her fellow countrymen.

Book Review

A review of Conversations on Writing

Maya Khankhoje

Pay heed to the final words of a profound thinker.

Essay

Speaking at Eye Level: Decoding the Language of Populism

Maya Khankhoje

A quick search of the term populism in cyberspace reveals its increasing popularity (no pun intended) in the last decade, in both traditional and social media. The term democracy, on the other hand, became de rigueur a long time ago […]

Book Review

My Conversations with Canadians

Maya Khankhoje

“Nowhere in these treaties or court decisions does it say we grant you permission to take over management and control of our territory and our lives.”

Essay

The Spirit of Our Times

Maya Khankhoje

Qi or Ch’i is often defined as a spiritual force that emanates from, or animates, living beings. In Chinese, Qi literally means breath. So do the words psyche in Greek and atman in Sanskrit. It is perhaps no coincidence […]

Book Review

Undoctored

Maya Khankhoje

Undoctored is an honest, well-researched, clearly written indictment of an unholy alliance that affects each and every one of us.

Book Review

No Is Not Enough

Maya Khankhoje

In this well-researched and incisive book written at breakneck speed (to match the speed of Donald Trump’s sharp turns in the White House), Klein makes it very clear that Trump’s rise to power is not an aberration, but rather the inevitable culmination of neoliberal politics in recent decades.

Book Review

The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class

Maya Khankhoje

The precariat is growing because “there was a crude social compact in the globalisation era.”

Book Review

American Candide

Maya Khankhoje

“War on drugs is hell,” announced Candide to his friend. “Someone’s always trying to rip off your grow-op. They better learn to cultivate their own garden if they know what’s good for them.”

Film Review

Dheepan

Maya Khankhoje

Dheepan is a Tamil-language film directed by French director Jacques Audiard, featuring Jesuthasan Anthonythasan as Dheepan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan as his wife Yalini, and Claudine Vinasithamby as their daughter Illayaal. However, things are not what they seem. Dheepan is in fact […]

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