Reviews

The Jaguar’s Children

As a non-fiction writer, John Vaillant has authored two critically lauded page-turners enlivened by high drama, gripping suspense, and other characteristics of the best crime fiction. The Golden Spruce, which detailed the destruction of an ... Read More »

March 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Mountain Story

By Lori Lansens

With her new novel, Lori Lansens, the best-selling author of The Girls, may have reached the peak of storytelling prowess. The Mountain Story is a fast-paced and profound adventure that demands to be read in ... Read More »

March 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Street Symphony

By Rachel Wyatt

This is the fifth short-story collection from Rachel Wyatt, Member of the Order of Canada, former Banff Centre director of writing programs, and author of numerous novels and plays. Unsurprisingly, Street Symphony is an accomplished ... Read More »

March 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ All True Not a Lie In It

By Alix Hawley

The first novel by B.C.-based short-story writer Alix Hawley deconstructs the traditional narrative concerning frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734–1820). Perhaps America’s first mythologized hero, Boone was an international legend in his own lifetime and remains so ... Read More »

March 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Under the Visible Life

By Kim Echlin

Feel more. Simple words, but a challenging credo for literary authors to live by. Thankfully, we have Kim Echlin to show us how it’s done. In Under the Visible Life, Echlin (who was shortlisted for ... Read More »

March 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All-Day Breakfast

By Adam Lewis Schroeder

With his new novel, Penticton, B.C., writer and teacher Adam Lewis Schroeder breaks with his literary past – which includes novels like In the Fabled East, a finalist for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – ... Read More »

February 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash

By Timothy Caulfield

Like Holden Caulfield, Timothy Caulfield has a hate-on for phonies. The difference between the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye and the writer of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? is that the latter ... Read More »

February 23, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Burqa of Skin

By Nelly Arcan; Melissa Bull (trans.)

Writers cannot control how their work is read, and this becomes infinitely more complicated after writers take their own lives. Especially pretty, young iconoclasts who write about sex work. Quebec author Nelly Arcan, whose debut ... Read More »

February 19, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Damned

By Andrew Pyper

Andrew Pyper has built a successful career writing hauntingly suspenseful supernatural thrillers. He takes another trip to the dark side with his eighth novel, this time focusing on the hope and horror within everyday existence ... Read More »

February 17, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Where the Nights Are Twice As Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

By David Eso (ed.); Jeanette Lynes (ed.)

The title of this often surprising book plays on that of another such anthology: Love Where the Nights Are Long, edited by Irving Layton in 1962. The two volumes, however, are as different as chalk ... Read More »

February 12, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

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