Reviews

Our Scandalous Senate

When J. Patrick Boyer writes that the recent senate expenses scandal “dominated media coverage, overtook the national conversation,” he may be overstating the case just a little bit. The story of four senators – Mike ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

El Nino

By Nadia Bozak

Nadia Bozak’s Border Trilogy breathes new life into the Western genre by updating the tired, male-centric archetype of the nomadic outlier. While her debut, 2007’s Orphan Love, takes place in Northern Ontario, Bozak’s new novel ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wiseman’s Wager

By Dave Margoshes

Now in their eighties and living in Calgary, Zan and Abe Wiseman are Jewish brothers from Winnipeg. Although it’s the 1980s, the two spend much of their time kvetching and reminiscing like some 1920s Borscht ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sad Peninsula

By Mark Sampson

Mark Sampson’s sophomore novel is cast as two parallel stories that eventually weave together with the precision of a tatami mat. Right from the start, readers are bludgeoned by the story of “Meiko,” barely a ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Black Dance

By Nancy Huston

Black Dance is a family story that spans generations, cultures, and continents, all tied together by the beat of capoeira drumming. (Capoeira is a martial art of Brazilian origin that incorporates dance and music.) As ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Station Eleven

By Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel has employed mystery elements in some of her earlier novels, but Station Eleven marks her boldest attempt yet to work within a genre. It’s a full-on post-apocalyptic novel, complete with a ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Man

By Kim Thúy; Sheila Fischman; trans.

The Vietnamese woman’s name Mãn means “perfectly fulfilled” or “there may be nothing left to desire.” The name is a curse for the central character in Kim Thúy’s newly translated work of fiction. Mãn is ... Read More »

August 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sweetland

By Michael Crummey

The title of Michael Crummey’s new novel is the name of both the main character and the economically eclipsed Newfoundland outport island he inhabits. The story explores the extent to which one is indivisible from ... Read More »

August 21, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Ellen in Pieces

By Caroline Adderson

Unfolding in a collection of scenes that bounce back and forth in time, and told through multiple perspectives, Ellen in Pieces could easily have been a confusing mess. Instead, in her new novel for adults, ... Read More »

August 18, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

By Daniel J. Levitin

Daniel J. Levitin, professor of psychology and behavioural neuroscience at McGill University and author of the bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs, is clearly in tune with the ... Read More »

August 14, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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