A selection of Daniel’s published essays, features and reviews over the years.
Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on British Columbia Review on February 28, 2026 Liberation and Libido: Masculinity, Sexuality, and the Aesthetics of Gay Liberation in Canada, 1971–1987, by Nicholas A. Hrynyk (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2026), $32.95 / 9781487507077 Back in 1990, when I was fresh out of the closet and eager to learn about Canadian gay politics and culture, Stan Persky told me about a 1982 book he had co-edited with Ed…
Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on British Columbia Review on October 8, 2025 Gino: The Fighting Spirit of Gino Odjick, by Patrick Johnston and Peter Leech (Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2025), $44.95 / 9781778402708 As one of the National Hockey League’s most feared tough guys in his day, Gino Odjick remains one of the most popular Vancouver Canucks ever and a favourite role model for Indigenous youth across Canada. Now, two years after his…
Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on British Columbia Review on August 17, 2025 Three Parties, by Ziyad Saadi (Toronto: Hamish Hamilton, 2025), $34.95 / 9780735250963 For some readers of queer fiction, the coming out novel has been a tired sub-genre for quite some time now. From rites of passage to the development of a personal gay consciousness, it’s all been done before. With the subject exhausted, what fresh new take could there possibly be?…
Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on British Columbia Review on May 20, 2025 Iron Mike: My Life Behind the Bench by Mike Keenan, with Scott Morrison Toronto: Random House Canada, 2024 $36.00 / 9780735281851 With his replacement of Rick Tocchet as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, Adam Foote becomes the twenty-second bench boss in the club’s fifty-five year history—the seventh since 2013. Canucks Nation is holding its collective breath wondering how effective he…
Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on British Columbia Review on April 23, 2025 The Tiger and the Cosmonaut by Eddy Boudel Tan Toronto: Viking Canada, 2025 $26.95 / 9780735248557 Eddy Boudel Tan entered the Can Lit world with a sensational first novel. Inspired by the horrific 2015 plane crash by pilot suicide of Germanwings Flight 9525, After Elias used hindsight to explore a gay couple’s relationship before a similar tragedy ended it. When a…
