Reviews

The Promise of Canada: 150 Years – People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country

Canada’s sesquicentennial in 2017 no doubt will prompt much soul-searching around the subject of how to define our country. Is it easier or harder, 150 years after Confederation, to explain who we are? And how ... Read More »

December 8, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reference

Barbaric Cultural Practice

By Penn Kemp

It seems strangely à propos to see refined, award-winning poet and activist Penn Kemp return to a thematics of barbarism in her latest book. Kemp opens with “Tip Line,” a poem that sets the stage ... Read More »

December 6, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

Yes or Nope

By Meaghan Strimas

In Meaghan Strimas’s third collection, the poet picks up where she left off in 2010’s A Good Time Had by All. Not one to shy away from life’s rougher edges, Strimas possesses a knack for ... Read More »

December 6, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

The Performance

By Ann Eriksson

Music and money drive Ann Eriksson’s fifth novel. Hana Knight is a gifted young pianist who narrates the story of her family, her struggles as a musician, and her relationship with a deranged homeless woman ... Read More »

November 29, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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

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