Reviews

The Illegal

If the statistics are to be believed, we are facing a global refugee crisis. According to the United Nations, there were a staggering 59.5 million people forcibly displaced from their homes by the end of ... Read More »

September 8, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Captive

By Claudine Dumont; David Scott Hamilton (trans.)

In her debut novel, Quebec photographer and teacher Claudine Dumont plunges the reader into the depths of a nightmare with a visceral immediacy that leaves one gasping for breath. Emma is the sort of person ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada

By Robert Bothwell

University of toronto history professor Robert Bothwell traverses Seymour Lipsett territory in his new examination of how two countries so close in proximity can have developed in such divergent ways, concluding that “Canada oscillates on ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Disarming Conflict: Why Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield

By Ernie Regehr

“Peace, no less than politics, is the art of the possible.” So writes Ernie Regehr, activist and founder of Project Ploughshares, in his new book about the futility of trying to solve global conflicts through ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Afterlife of Birds

By Elizabeth Philips

The debut novel from Saskatoon poet Elizabeth Philips (A Blue with Blood in It and Beyond My Keeping, both of which won the Saskatchewan Poetry Award) features a man who obsessively rebuilds skeletons of birds ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Road to Atlantis

By Leo Brent Robillard

In his previous novels, Leo Brent Robillard has tackled the Boer War, the Wild West, and Jazz Age Montreal, but for his latest, he’s set his sights on the present. The Road to Atlantis begins ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Malignant Metaphor: Finding the Hidden Meaning of Cancer

By Alanna Mitchell

Reading Malignant Metaphor, I was reminded of the first times, as a child, I overheard adults speak of cancer. The topic was always addressed in hushed tones, as though a sooty secret were being shared. ... Read More »

August 31, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Theory of Light at Midnight

By Elizabeth Ukrainetz

In an essay called “The Chattering Mind,” collected in his 2015 book, Where I’m Reading From, novelist and critic Tim Parks isolates a “monstrously heightened consciousness” as “the main protagonist” of 20th-century fiction. The “full-blown ... Read More »

August 27, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada’s Lost Promise and One Girl’s Dream

By Charlie Angus

The new book by NDP MP Charlie Angus is actually worthy of all of the positive clichés of non-fiction book reviewing. The subject matter is important. The story is at times inspiring, at other times ... Read More »

August 24, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Wild Rose

By Sharon Butala

Sharon Butala’s seventh novel – and first work of fiction since the 2002 story collection Real Life – is the kind of near-perfect book that proclaims the full expression of a writer’s artistry and sensibility. ... Read More »

August 20, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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