Dr. Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martinez, lettered by Sarula Bao. Simon & Schuster. 2021 “I am a historian, and I am haunted.” These are the first words uttered by Dr. Rebecca Hall as drawn by illustrator Hugo Martinez in their new graphic novel Wake,...
Jeremiah Camp does not speak. At all. For the entire book. The protagonist of Thomas King’s novel, Sufferance, has no TV, phone, internet, or mailbox. He likes it that way. Jeremiah lives on the fictional Cradle Rock Reserve, located somewhere in Ontario, as the owner...
Likeness, fathers, sons, a portrait, by David MacFarlane delivers exactly what the title promises but in an unexpected way. Likeness is not a straight-ahead memoir. Much depends on the portrait, its effect on the author, the heartbreaking loss of his son, and the...
