September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
Montreal author Sarah Steinberg’s first book is a collection of stories about girls and young women on the outside, in worlds that are all about being on the inside – ballet classes, ocean cruises, university ... Read More »
Anna Lasko has had a bad decade. First she fell in love with a guitar-toting artist with a penchant for emotional abuse. Then she found herself head of her high school English department, despite constant ... Read More »
June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Literary criticism in Canada suffers from a plague of timidity. There are many reasons for this, but one of the primary ones is the misguided notion that a vibrant literary culture depends on blind boosterism ... Read More »
April 7, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays
If you’ve ever wondered about the relative abundance of pubic hair among women and men of the First Nations, you don’t have to feel alone anymore. Me Sexy, an anthology of 13 essays on the ... Read More »
March 31, 2008 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction
Books about ecological catastrophe can be real downers, but a sense of humour and lively writing make William Marsden’s entry into the suddenly popular category of inconvenient truths well worth a look. A journalist with ... Read More »
March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
Literature investigating the experience of soldiers in war zones is a well-explored genre. Whether it be the First or Second World War, Korea, or Vietnam, readers have been fully exposed to the effect this kind ... Read More »
March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
Best known for his meticulously detailed accounts of Canadian Second World War battles in Normandy and Italy, historian Mark Zuehlke has brought to life a woefully under-recorded chapter in Canadian history in the excellent Terrible ... Read More »
March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
After barely surviving a forced amalgamation, a mayor notorious for bone-headed remarks, and the SARS outbreak, Toronto is having a renaissance of sorts. For the last few years, the civic discourse in Toronto has veered ... Read More »
March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
The strange thing about University of Toronto historian Steve Penfold’s new book, The Donut: A Canadian History, is that you can get through its 200-odd pages without ever experiencing a craving for a donut. Not ... Read More »
March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink
Adding to the bumper crop of books documenting recent American misdeeds are two new titles that examine the effects of Bush’s policies. For Erna Paris, The Sun Climbs Slow marks a natural progression from her ... Read More »
March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs