Reviews

The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

Noah Richler’s latest book is meant to be the story of one unlikely politician’s doomed campaign as a candidate for the federal New Democratic Party. But this enjoyable, albeit uneven, memoir also provides some insight ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

The Woods: A Year on Protection Island

By Amber McMillan

Amber McMillan’s memoir tells the story of the author’s escape from Toronto to B.C. Tired of city living, McMillan and her husband set their sights on Protection Island, in Nanaimo Harbour. The couple is drawn ... Read More »

November 1, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Advocate

By Darren Greer

During the first few years of the AIDS crisis, the darkness and confusion surrounding the disease were so complete that reason, no matter how firm its foundation, often lost out to fear and hysteria. Gay ... Read More »

November 1, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

News of the World

By Paulette Jiles

With the omnipresence of 24-hour TV news channels, online news aggregators, and Twitter, it is difficult to imagine a time when global news wasn’t available instantaneously; when, if you wanted any sense of world events, ... Read More »

October 31, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

By Jennifer Welsh

In The Return of History, the 2016 edition of the CBC Massey Lectures, Jennifer Welsh takes umbrage with Francis Fukuyama. In 1992, Fukuyama declared that the end of the Cold War marked the inevitable cessation ... Read More »

October 26, 2016 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs

The Minted

By Will McClelland

With his debut novel, author Will McClelland gleefully embraces a swath of clichés about both CanLit and Canadian identity, and turns them – resoundingly and to tremendous effect – on their heads. The Minted, after ... Read More »

October 26, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No News Is Bad News: Canada’s Media Collapse – And What Comes Next

By Ian Gill

If you don’t know what’s been happening to the news business these days, you haven’t been following the news. The story is by now familiar. Print is locked in a death spiral, starved for revenue ... Read More »

October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada

By Shannon Stettner (ed.)

In 1969, abortion was legalized in Canada, but only when the procedure was performed in a hospital and had been approved by a committee of doctors. In response to these restrictions, activists launched the cross-country ... Read More »

October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Into the Current

By Jared Young

Framing a character’s life in such a way that there is a worthy purpose for telling their story, while also avoiding the monotony of cliché, is a meticulous undertaking. In his debut novel, Ottawa writer ... Read More »

October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis

By Maude Barlow

With 2016 on track to shatter heat and drought records, the crises of climate change and declining freshwater supplies that have long afflicted the global south are increasingly appearing in Canada, where the seemingly unlimited ... Read More »

October 13, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

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