Reviews

The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker

By Arnaud DeLalande; Éric Liberge (ill.); David Homel (trans.)

History may be written by the winners, but it’s often drawn by whomever is able to wield a pen. Cartooning and graphic memoirs like Maus and Persepolis have been able to deliver particularly subversive takes ... Read More »

November 29, 2016 | Filed under: Graphica

Shadow of Doubt: The Trial of Dennis Oland

By Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon

Dennis Oland was perceived as a mild-mannered family man of good character. Then, on Dec. 19, 2015, he was convicted of butchering his father, Richard Oland, a millionaire businessman and part of the family that ... Read More »

November 28, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Brothers

By David Clerson; Katia Grubisic (trans.)

Variations of the word “innovate” appear 10 times in the Wikipedia entry for Steve Jobs, which also includes an Innovations section with nine subsections. As Walter Isaacson, who authored the definitive biography of Jobs and ... Read More »

November 28, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hungary-Hollywood Express

By Éric Plamondon; Dimitri Nasrallah (trans.)

November 24, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Keys of My Prison

By Frances Shelley Wees

The term “Canadian noir” sounds almost oxymoronic – as a concept, it runs contrary to both our complacently benign self-image and our international reputation as wholesome, apologetic, and frostbitten. The strange difficulty of convincing ourselves ... Read More »

November 21, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Two Man Tent

By Robert Chafe

As an accomplished theatre director and prolific playwright (his stage adaptation of Wayne Johnston’s The Colony of Unrequited Dreams plays the National Arts Centre in 2017), Newfoundland’s Robert Chafe has always had a penchant for ... Read More »

November 21, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

How to Draw a Rhinoceros

By Kate Sutherland

Kate Sutherland’s How to Draw a Rhinoceros is a curious little book, presenting a series of poems about rhinoceroses with a focus on their commodification as spectacle over the course of western colonial history. The ... Read More »

November 17, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

The Nearly Girl

By Lisa de Nikolits

South African–Canadian author Lisa de Nikolits is no stranger to the industry – four of her five books have been recognized with Independent Publishing Awards, and she’s contributed to multiple short-fiction anthologies. Yet her latest ... Read More »

November 16, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Elephants in My Backyard

By Rajiv Surendra

If you know Rajiv Surendra at all, it’s probably from his scene-stealing performance as Kevin G., a rapping mathlete in the 2004 movie Mean Girls. He threw himself into the audition, wowed the director, and ... Read More »

November 15, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Involuntary Bliss

By Devon Code

Back in 1939, Winston Churchill described Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” One might use the same words to describe Peterborough, Ontario, author Devon Code’s complex, sometimes brilliant, often frustrating ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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