Steven Beattie
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- Sep 2, 2026
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Alex Spring’s Lower City gets the calculus of thriller conventions backward (opens the original)
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The title of Alex Spring’s debut novel refers to a working-class area of Hamilton, a city colloquially referred to as Steeltown. Lower City, we are told, is distinct from Upper City, “an often beautiful, frequently leafy part of town raised a hundred metres up on the Niagara Escarpment.” Here one can find the wealthy and entitled one per cent, while the “normal people,” along with “Toronto transplants and hipsters,” occupy the valley beneath, a “slice of land between the mountain and the lake” w
Ian Brown’s memoir of his seventy-first year is a reckoning with mortality (opens the original)
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“But back to my colonoscopy!” It would be rare, in casual conversation, to encounter anyone so excited about a sensitive, invasive medical procedure, but perhaps this is one line of demarcation between interpersonal relations and memoirs. There’s a certain amount of oversharing one must be willing to abide to navigate the memoir genre. In the age of Instagram and TikTok influencers documenting every aspect of their lives, no matter how mundane or trivial, the temptation for a memoirist to revea
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