Born to Walk: The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act

Dan Rubinstein is obsessed with walking. The journalist and magazine editor’s new book presents a thoroughly researched argument testifying to the fact that walking is good – for our bodies, minds, spirits, societies, economy, creativity, ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

A Free Man

By Michel Basilières

Admirers of Michel Basilières’ Black Bird, which won the 2003 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, have been waiting for a follow-up for more than a decade. Apparently, it’s not coming. According to a throwaway ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Against a Darkening Sky

By Lauren B. Davis

Lauren B. Davis’s latest novel transports its reader back to seventh-century England, where widespread belief in superstitions, spirits, and gods galore collides with the birth of Christianity. In her acknowledgments, the author likens her imaginative ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

When the Saints

By Sarah Mian

Sarah Mian is a true storyteller – a poet and short-story writer, the Nova Scotia–based author is also a fixture on CBC Radio’s Definitely Not the Opera. She certainly knows how to spin a good ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Boo

By Neil Smith

As a child in Illinois, Oliver is nicknamed Boo because of his ghostly, albino-like pallor. We meet Oliver in a branch of heaven known as Town, where all the inhabitants have died at age 13. ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan

By Robert Hough

From a contemporary Russian mail-order bride in The Culprits to a 1930s charlatan on the Mexican-American border in Dr. Brinkley’s Tower, Robert Hough’s novels reveal a capacity for carefully researched forays into strikingly esoteric areas. ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Pemmican Eaters

By Marilyn Dumont

Marilyn Dumont, celebrated Métis poet and author of A Really Good Brown Girl, which won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, returns to her roots with The Pemmican Eaters. Though other books have been written ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Poetry

From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia

By Ian Dejardin (ed.); Sarah Milroy (ed.)

A strong affinity for the natural beauty of western Canada and First Nations culture is clearly visible in the work of Emily Carr, one of Canada’s best-loved artists. Her point of view resonates strongly today, ... Read More »

April 13, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ The Exiles’ Gallery

By Elise Partridge

Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world,” writes author and critic Paul Goodman. Elise Partridge’s third and final book of poetry (the poet died of cancer in January) is ... Read More »

April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

By Liz Howard

It seems absurd that Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent is Liz Howard’s full-length debut. There is a gravity, a certainty to the way Howard inhabits these words and phrases, that lends her writing a ... Read More »

April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

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