Reviews

The Devil You Know

Violence against women as it is typically portrayed in novels, TV series, and movies involves an intrusion of the pathological upon otherwise safe lives. In these fictional scenarios, teams of helpful, well-trained police officers work ... Read More »

January 12, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Deep

By Nick Cutter

Following up his sensational 2014 debut thriller, The Troop, was never going to be easy for Nick Cutter. But the author shows no lack of ambition in The Deep, another spectacular journey into the extremes ... Read More »

January 8, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Maddy Kettle (Book 1): The Adventure of the Thimblewitch

By Eric Orchard

Creators of fantasy comics are a hard-working bunch, taking on the challenge of making their worlds believable in both words and pictures. In his first outing as a graphic novelist, Toronto cartoonist and illustrator Eric ... Read More »

January 7, 2015 | Filed under: Graphica, Picture Books

★ Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995–2014

By Alice Munro

At a recent book fair in Toronto, I chatted with a woman who wrote YA zombie novels. She told me she reads mostly horror fiction, and that she found mainstream Canadian literature “boring.” When she ... Read More »

January 5, 2015 | Filed under: Anthologies

Rumours of Glory

By Bruce Cockburn

Story goes that back in the early 1980s a reporter asked Eddie Van Halen what it felt like to be the best guitar player in the world. “I don’t know,” Van Halen quipped. “Ask Bruce ... Read More »

December 22, 2014 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

The Future and Why We Should Avoid It: Killer Robots, the Apocalypse and Other Topics of Mild Concern

By Scott Feschuk

Scott Feschuk is an extremely funny guy, which is a good thing given his abundant presence on Canadian newsstands. Both as a political speechwriter and a humour columnist, he has written for a variety of ... Read More »

December 22, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

kissing keeps us afloat

By Laurie MacFayden

Following 2010’s White Shirt, kissing keeps us afloat (the persistent lower case is a trademark this time around) is Laurie MacFayden’s second collection of poems. After a long career as a sports writer, the Edmonton-based ... Read More »

December 19, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Savour

By Jackie Bateman

In her new novel, Vancouver author Jackie Bateman – who lived in Edinburgh and London before relocating to the West Coast – brings a unique and unsettling perspective to the otherwise hoary trope of the ... Read More »

December 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Girl Before, the Girl After

By Louis-Philippe Hébert; Jonathan Kaplansky trans.

The perils of romantic preoccupation inform The Girl Before, the Girl After, the translation of Quebec poet and novelist Louis-Philippe Hébert’s 2012 novella, Celle d’avant et celle d’après. With its unconventional structure and evocative sexual ... Read More »

December 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Paths of Desire

By Emmanuel Kattan; Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo trans.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict sits at the heart of Montreal-born novelist Emmanuel Kattan’s latest offering in translation. While Kattan frames his story as a genre mystery, the larger thematic ties to the Middle East crisis lend ... Read More »

December 18, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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