Reviews

A Great Game: The Forgotten Leafs and the Rise of Professional Hockey

If A Great Game had been written by someone other than the sitting prime minister of Canada, it would have debuted with little fanfare. But because Stephen Harper (or Stephen J. Harper, as his name appears ... Read More »

November 7, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Crooked Maid

By Dan Vyleta

“When I set out to write The Crooked Maid,” says Dan Vyleta in the acknowledgements to his 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated novel, “I had contracted the Balzacian bug.” Vyleta’s reference is appropriate, since the 19th-century ... Read More »

November 5, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

By Clive Thompson

Most people agree the digital revolution has dramatically changed the way we live, with some even taking the McLuhanite line that it has fundamentally changed who we are as well. There is little agreement, however, ... Read More »

November 4, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Dead North: The Exile Book of Canadian Zombie Fiction

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia, ed.

Here’s the inherent problem with zombies, from a literary perspective: they’re boring. Mindless, shambling husks devoid of language or reason, they exist as creatures of pure instinct, with only one driving force: chomping on the ... Read More »

October 28, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The n-Body Problem

By Tony Burgess

The title of Tony Burgess’s new novel refers to a question in classical mechanics: is it possible to predict the individual movements of a group of celestial objects that interact with one another gravitationally? Isaac ... Read More »

October 28, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival

By Giles Slade

The past decade’s catastrophic climate change events, from Superstorm Sandy to the return of 1930s-style dust storms across the American Midwest, are catalogued in this new book, which argues that a huge migration of environmental ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Heart of the Blackhawks: The Pierre Pilote Story

By L. Waxy Gregoire and David M. Dupuis with Pierre Pilote

Bobby Hull has often joked that he loved wearing the Chicago Blackhawks jersey because its distinctive crest looked a lot like Pierre Pilote’s face. Pilote, who played from 1955 to ’69, became one of the ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life

By Jane Christmas

Jane Christmas has always felt drawn to religious life. The quiet, simple existence of cloistered nuns holds great appeal, and after two failed marriages, she decides to enter a convent to find out if she ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla

By Andrew Steinmetz

With the most sprawling POW film ever produced as its backdrop, This Great Escape details the short but eventful life of Michael Paryla, a part-Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who moved to Canada with his ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Blood: The Stuff of Life

By Lawrence Hill

It’s impossible to think of a bodily fluid more misunderstood and manipulated than blood. (Well, maybe semen, but it’s a very distant second.) The red liquid that courses through our bodies and accounts for about ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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