Can we escape our past? To judge these two quirkily comic offerings, the answer is a troubled no. Airsick, by Emma Frost, follows the fortunes of two childhood friends, now in their early thirties.

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Smoke billowing out of a coal plant. Passengers disembarking from a plane at Pearson airport. In the midst of this, flowers blooming. All are images — shot by Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk — ...

Because Nicholas Edward Cave does whatever the hell Nicholas Edward Cave pleases, the Bad Seed and occasional Kylie Minogue collaborator is publishing a book that he wrote entirely on airsick bags.