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The Confabulist

Martin Strauss is doubly cursed: he is the victim of a degenerative condition that destroys his memories while replacing them with false ones, and the man responsible for the death of Harry Houdini. He is ... Read More »

April 28, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ All My Puny Sorrows

By Miriam Toews

The choice to die and the shame associated with suicide are at the thematic heart of Miriam Toews’s stunning sixth novel. This is not unexpected, given that the author herself has been touched by suicide ... Read More »

April 24, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Persona Non Grata: The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age

By Tom Flanagan

“A national political campaign,” wrote H.L. Mencken, “is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.” After four federal elections in the seven years ... Read More »

April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Winning Power: Canadian Campaigning in the 21st Century

By Tom Flanagan

April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Lynching of Peter Wheeler

By Debra Komar

Canadian forensic anthropologist Debra Komar spent decades helping the United Nations solve mysteries involving mass graves in the former Yugoslavia, Darfur, and other international political hot spots. Lately, Komar has been metaphorically exhuming Canadian graves ... Read More »

April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright’s Universe

By Dan Falk

Journalist Dan Falk combines his love of science – particularly the history of science – with his fondness for Shakespeare in this intriguing attempt to answer questions about what the Bard knew, when he knew ... Read More »

April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?

By Doretta Lau

In her debut short-fiction collection, Vancouver writer Doretta Lau moves characters of Asian descent from the margins of CanLit to centre stage. Though a number of the stories in this book suffer from homogeneity of ... Read More »

April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Hair-Trigger

By Trevor Clark

With his new novel, Vancouver writer Trevor Clark takes readers deep into Toronto’s dark underbelly, an emotionally barren world of guns, drugs, and casual violence. It’s a world without joy, but that’s only part of ... Read More »

April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Licence of War

By Claire Letemendia

Five years after the release of her first novel, The Best of Men, Claire Letemendia resumes the story of the dashing Laurence Beaumont’s political and romantic intrigues. It is 1643 and civil war is wracking ... Read More »

April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Empress of the Night

By Eva Stachniak

Eva Stachniak’s previous novel, The Winter Palace, was a well-received work of historical fiction about Catherine the Great. Narrated by one of Catherine’s most trusted attendants, Varvara, it spanned the future monarch’s arrival in Russia ... Read More »

April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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