Vol. 6, No. 1 / Reviews & ReflectionsThe Trees are InnocentCharles Campbell reviews art by Sandra Semchuck and Ayumi Goto at the Art Gallery of Greater VictoriaBy Charles CampbellArtists Sandra Semchuck and Ayumi Goto Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest May 19 to September 30. 2018 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Curated by Haema SivanesanShare ArticleWhen you put on the glasses …

Vol. 6, No. 1 / Reviews & ReflectionsAm I Dancing My Life Away?Staged reading of Chivalry is Dead by playwright Munish Sharma at the 2018 Monsoon Festival reviewed.By Mandeep WirkMunish Sharma at Monsoon Festival 2018, Chivarly is Dead reading. Image by Mandeep Wirk.Share ArticleOn August 15, 2018, I attended playwright and actor Munish Sharma’s reading of his one-person play Chivalry is …

Vol. 6, No. 1 / Reviews & ReflectionsA Love of Tragic BeautyRawi Hage’s Beirut Hellfire Society reviewedBy Hanif KarimRawi Hage Beirut Hellfire Society Knopf Canada (2018)Share Article Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog Psalm 22:20 There is a moment near the beginning of Beirut Hellfire Society, Rawi Hage’s excoriating fourth novel, when three …

Vol. 6, No. 1 / Reviews & ReflectionsIdentity Politics, Once AgainAm Johal review’s Asad Haider’s Mistaken Identity.By Am JohalAsad Haider Mistaken Identity Verso (2018)Share ArticleAsad Haider’s fascinating book, ‘Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump’ (Verso, 2018) is a timely and nuanced intervention in to the innumerable discussions on identity politics that are circulating today across the …

Vol. 5, No. 4 / Reviews & ReflectionsDifficult Realities: Divya Mehra’s DIFFICULT PEOPLEBy Simranpreet AnandPerformance by Divya Mehra at 221A Pollyanna Library March 24, 2018 Vancouver, BCImage: Divya MehraShare ArticleMehra stood at the back of the room hidden behind the audience, performing through her narration of a script. Her omnipresent voice filled the room as she orated a series of poems, …

Vol. 5, No. 4 / Reviews & ReflectionsMythical Ambiguity and NiseiBy Carolyn NakagawaFloating City By Kerri Sakamoto 272pp. Knopf Canada. 2018Share ArticleThe novel Floating City tells the ambiguously mythical story of Frankie Hanesaka, a Canadian-born son of Japanese immigrants, from his early life of poverty in Port Alberni to his success as a developer in Toronto. Author Kerri Sakamoto uses accessible …

Vol. 5, No. 3 / Reviews & ReflectionsVersions of Contemporaneity: Revisiting the Qualifier “Indigenous”By Madiha Sikander and Rajarshi SenguptaMany Visions, Many Versions: Art from Indigenous Communities in India Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC January 20, 2018 to March 25, 2018 Curated by: Dr. Aurogeeta Das and Dr. David Szanton with assistance from curating consultant Jeffrey Wechsler. Organized by: BINDU Modern Art Gallery …

Vol. 5, No. 3 / Reviews & ReflectionsA Rising Tide: Fighting Tamil Refugee Detention in CanadaBy Fathima CaderThe Boat People By Sharon Bala 416 pp. McClelland & StewartShare ArticleI was a law student in Vancouver when first the Ocean Lady and then the MV Sun Sea arrived in British Columbia, two worn-out freighters carrying 568 people between them. One passenger …

Vol. 5, No. 3 / Reviews & ReflectionsSouth Asian Photography in FocusBy Hussein KeshaniTitle: Re Present: Photography from South Asia Artists: Anonymous 19th Century Photographers, Linneaus Tripe, Vivan Sundaram, Pamela Singh, Dayanita Singh, Ghasiram Haradev Sharma, Raqs Media Collective, D. Nurrerwanji, Zinnia Naqvi, Pushpamala N. and Clare Arni, Nandini Valli Muthiah, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Panchal Mansaram, Sunil Gupta, Alexander Gorlizki …