October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
It’s tempting to assume that Canadian women artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries were second-rate, given that the male-dominated canon of art history has portrayed them as such, simply by exclusion. Independent Spirit ... Read More »
Though “oblivion, and states approaching it” may, as Mike Barnes writes in the first of four lengthy essays that make up The Lily Pond, “slide away most determinedly from the very conscious act of writing,” ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
Readers familiar with Guy Delisle’s previous travel memoirs, Shenzhen and Pyongyang, may get a jolt from the cover image of his latest. In it, Delisle’s high-foreheaded and low-shouldered avatar is slouching past a heavily fortified ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Graphica
On the first anniversary of the murder of First Nations teen Alex Starchild, a cowboy’s horse returns home to its ranch without its rider. It doesn’t take detectives Lane and Harper long to connect the ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
For a novel that begins with a grisly stabbing and features three other murders, Britt Holmström’s Claudia is surprisingly upbeat. Indeed, the cactus flower on the cover is a fitting symbol of the book’s central ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Welcome to the 2008 version of the Important Canadian Novel. Like the 2007 version – Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero – Red Dog, Red Dog announces itself with a flurry of portentous poetic language, often dealing with ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
In his 2006 book The Desperate Ones, Guelph, Ontario, author Edward Butts chronicled the exploits of some famous – and some not-so-famous – Canadian criminals of years gone by. With his follow-up, Running with Dillinger, ... Read More »
September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
The term “fundamentalist,” with its inevitable connotations of religious extremism and even terrorism, has become a veritable pejorative in the North American lexicon. With his first book, In the World But Not of It, former ... Read More »
September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat has already outlined how outsourcing has transformed India, but the extent of it is still surprising. As a BBC foreign correspondent covering India and its environs for nearly 20 ... Read More »
September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
Bowen Island-based journalist and stay-at- home dad James Glave is on a mission to reduce his environmental footprint and inspire others to do the same. So he embarked on the construction of a 260-square-foot writing ... Read More »
September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment