Reviews

Wolf Winter

Wolf Winter is the debut novel from Swedish born, Calgary-based author Cecilia Ekbäck. Set in 1717 Sweden, the novel opens on Frederika and Dorthea who, along with their parents, have moved from Finland to Blackasen ... Read More »

February 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ravenscrag

By Alain Farah; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

The new novel by Montreal writer and French literature professor Alain Farah is less a book than an experience, a series of reactions shifting from confusion to frustration to a gradually dawning understanding and, ultimately, ... Read More »

February 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Owl and the Japanese Circus

By Kristi Charish

Alix Hiboux, the protagonist of Kristi Charish’s debut novel, is a grad student turned antiquities thief with one rule: she will not take on any jobs involving supernatural elements. With that stipulation in place, it’s ... Read More »

February 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Hunger of the Wolf

By Stephen Marche

Stephen Marche, perhaps best known for his controversial opinion pieces in Esquire and elsewhere, has shifted literary gears with The Hunger of the Wolf, his offering to the popular genre of the sweeping family saga. ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Montcalm & Wolfe: Two Men Who Forever Changed the Course of Canadian History

By Roch Carrier; Donald Winkler (trans.)

There have been many books written on the 1759 conquest of Quebec, some focusing on the defeated Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, others on the victorious James Wolfe. Early in Montcalm & Wolfe, Canadian literary lion Roch ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography

Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome

By Megan Gail Coles

Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome marks a potent fiction debut for Newfoundland playwright Megan Gail Coles. These 16 stories are often rather brief, but rarely short on impact. The diverse characters are united in ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Battle of London: Trudeau, Thatcher, and the Fight for Canada’s Constitution

By Frédéric Bastien; Jacob Homel trans.

A book about the struggle to repatriate Canada’s Constitution in the 1980s has no right to be as entertaining as Frédéric Bastien’s The Battle of London. The journalist and Dawson College history professor created a ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History

By Andrew Cohen

The life of John F. Kennedy has been examined from so many angles it would seem hard to conjure a fresh perspective on the man. Yet in Two Days in June, author and journalist Andrew ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Green Hotel

By Jesse Gilmour

One good turn deserves another. Jesse Gilmour, son of novelist David Gilmour, was the subject of his father’s best-selling 2007 memoir, The Film Club. Now he has come forth with his own book, a novella ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rewrite

By Temenuga Trifonova

York University professor Temenuga Trifonova’s debut novel is a provocative intellectual mystery, delving into the curious world of academia and the perplexities of personal identity. The story follows Bruno Leblon, a university lecturer in Paris ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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