Reviews

★ In Real Life

Near the beginning of author and copyright-reform activist Cory Doctorow’s new graphic novel, Anda and her friends are listening to a speaker at their Arizona high school. Liza, a “kick arse” Australian gamer in a ... Read More »

October 13, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Graphica, Kids’ Books

Who by Fire

By Fred Stenson

Alberta author Fred Stenson’s unsettling, cautionary new novel takes its title from “Unetaneh Tokef,” a Jewish liturgical poem associated with the Day of Atonement. Referenced in a Leonard Cohen song that shares a title with ... Read More »

October 9, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice

By Joshua Kahn Russell; Stephen D'Arcy; Toban Black; Tony Weis; eds.

The essay collection A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice is variously a manual, a call to action, and a series of first-hand accounts of a movement. While the struggle over mining ... Read More »

October 9, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Stars between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

By Lucia Jang; Susan McClelland

Few memoirs are as harrowing as Lucia Jang’s, about her life inside – and eventual escape from – North Korea. Written in collaboration with investigative journalist Susan McClelland (author of the bestseller Bite of the ... Read More »

October 6, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Who We Are: Reflections on My Life and Canada

By Elizabeth May

With the Canadian federal election coming next year, it’s no surprise that politicians and pundits are flooding bookstores with new tomes. Into the fray steps Green Party leader Elizabeth May with a volume billed as ... Read More »

October 2, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

By Barbara Taylor

In The Last Asylum, Barbara Taylor, a Canadian historian living in England, offers a searing account of her own journey through mental illness – or “madness,” as she frequently calls it. The book combines history ... Read More »

September 29, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Adult Onset

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

Adult Onset is the third novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald, who is also a playwright, actor, and broadcaster. The first two books, Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies, involved the sexual abuse ... Read More »

September 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Broken Hours

By Jacqueline Baker

Posthumously revered for such short stories as “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Call of Cthulhu,” Howard Phillips Lovecraft eked out a poor existence on a dwindling inheritance, ultimately succumbing to cancer in his ... Read More »

September 22, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

By Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is angry. The author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, and a self-confessed former climate change skeptic, comes out swinging in a book that takes direct aim at corporations, governments, and – ... Read More »

September 17, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Consumed

By David Cronenberg

Do you think a new esthetic can develop? Cancer beauty? ... Will non-cancerous women be begging their cosmetic surgeons to give them false nodes implants?” Imbued with notions of body modification this unsettling, could Consumed ... Read More »

September 15, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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