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Each month, Muskeg Press will review one of our favourite books that we have on our bookshelf. We hope these reviews reinforce a love of literature for our readers, or perhaps give you some ideas for the next book on your list to read. Enjoy!   Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind by Lyall WatsonNew York Review Books, 2019: 384 pages First published in 1984 All sorts of invisible things influence our lives. Take the novel coronavirus (please): we can’t see it, unless we have a high-powered microscope, but we know it’s there, especially if we get sick with it....

Each month, Muskeg Press will review one of our favourite books that we have on our bookshelf. We hope these reviews reinforce a love of literature for our readers, or perhaps give you some ideas for the next book on your list to read. Enjoy!           Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elementsby Hugh Aldersey-WilliamsPenguin Books, 2012: 428 pages           The physicist Richard Feynman, who worked on the Manhattan Project and won the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics, conducted a thought experiment of sorts in his book Six...

There’s the old question: what books would you want to have if you were trapped on a desert island? These days, social distancing and quarantines has created millions of desert islands – our homes – where we’re told to stay away from everyone else, lest the apocalypse arrive. So it’s the perfect time to read those books you haven’t had a chance to read, or perhaps re-read the books you love, to discover new meanings and insights, or to refamiliarize yourself with the characters and plotlines that you might have forgotten. With that in mind, here’s a list of the...

Each month, Muskeg Press will review one of our favourite books that we have on our bookshelf. We hope these reviews reinforce a love of literature for our readers, or perhaps give you some ideas for the next book on your list to read. Enjoy!   The Porpoise A novel by Mark Haddon Bond Street Books, 2019; 308 pages Stories, we’re told, help us make sense of the world: this crazy, messy, mad, mad, mad world. But when the world is really messy, and the reality is gouge-your-eyes-out terrible, how do you make sense of that? There’s this one story,...

Rudy Kelly's debut novel, All Native, will be released in about a fortnight. In the meantime, here's a small preview. Enjoy!   That summer, word got out that Jeannie was moving and when BJ told Nate, Nate tried to hide the sound of his heart breaking. He just nodded and said he had heard, although he hadn’t. “I think you should say goodbye,” said BJ, assuming an unfamiliar sensitive guy posture; it was like watching Charles Bronson trying to talk a bad guy into an apology instead of just beating the crap out of him. “What am I supposed to do?” asked...