★ Specimen

It’s no surprise to learn from Irina Koval-yova’s author bio that she is a senior lecturer in Simon Fraser University’s department of molecular biology and biochemistry. Or that she once interned for NASA. Or that ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What Was I Thinking? The Autobiography of an Idea and Other Essays

By Rick Salutin

The essay is a very personal form, a fact that provides columnist Rick Salutin his point of entry into this collection of new and previously published pieces. Salutin is a type of intellectual determinist, seeing ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Jim Guthrie: Who Needs What

By Andrew Hood

Andrew Hood’s new monograph on Jim Guthrie opens with a telling request from its star: “Is there any way that you can write me in as a supporting character in my own biography?” Besides pointing ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper’s New Conservative Agenda

By Brooke Jeffrey

The latest entry in the swelling ranks of books about the problems with Prime Minister Stephen Harper is Concordia University political science professor Brook Jeffrey’s Dismantling Canada. Like other titles in this category, Jeffrey’s book ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

My Body Is Yours

By Michael V. Smith

When he says “my body is yours,” Michael V. Smith means it. In his winding, emotional memoir, the author offers his reader every traceable history of his restless body, a body that causes him as ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Studio Grace: The Making of a Record

By Eric Siblin

For those unaware of the challenges involved in being an independent recording musician in 2015, Eric Siblin’s new memoir does a fine job of laying out the studio part of the equation. The book charts ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Twelve Cent Archie

By Bart Beaty

Archie comics have never been considered high art. They are most commonly found not in galleries, but on the backseats of station wagons, in bathrooms, or where Calgary-based scholar Bart Beaty first encountered them – ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Graphica

The Guy Who Pumps Your Gas Hates You

By Sean Trinder

Sean Trinder’s The Guy Who Pumps Your Gas Hates You and Hollie Adams’s Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother both focus their attention on that (hopefully brief) period after adolescence but before finding a foothold ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother

By Hollie Adams

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Breathing Lessons

By Andy Sinclair

The title of Andy Sinclair’s debut novel refers to the experience of accepting air from another person, whether through artificial respiration or by sharing a joint. A special type of breathing is involved, but once ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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