Reviews

★ Little Cat

Brought back into the world as a single-volume reprint, Little Cat offers “substantially revised” versions of Tamara Faith Berger’s first two novels: 1999’s Lie with Me and 2001’s The Way of the Whore. For all ... Read More »

June 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Matadora

By Elizabeth Ruth

What does it mean to be a woman? To be alive? In her audacious third novel, Elizabeth Ruth examines such grand, universal questions through an historically specific mise-en-scène. Set in the days before the Spanish ... Read More »

May 13, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society

By David Waltner-Toews

Shit – a mass-produced, quotidian product – is something that, for various cultural reasons, we don’t talk about much. For veterinarian and epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews, this is a mistake his new book aims to rectify. ... Read More »

May 6, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Travelling Light

By Peter Behrens

Most of this collection’s 23 short stories were published in Peter Behrens’ first book, 1987’s Night Driving; in an author’s note, Behrens says he revised “but tried to avoid rewriting” them. A cynic might suggest ... Read More »

April 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Bone and Bread

By Saleema Nawaz

Five years after Mother Superior, her breakthrough collection of short stories, Saleema Nawaz returns with a big and beautiful novel set in Montreal and Ottawa. While there’s much travelling in this book – through time ... Read More »

April 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Toronto Star Cookbook: More than 150 Diverse and Delicious Recipes Celebrating Ontario

By Jennifer Bain; Ryan Szulc, photog.

One of the overarching sentiments governing cooking these days is the idea that less is more, simple is better. Fancy food has become déclassé. There are challenges when packaging such recipes for today’s cookbook-buying public. ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Summers in Supino: Becoming Italian

By Maria Coletta McLean

It is impossible to approach a book entitled Summers in Supino: Becoming Italian without wary anticipation of the cloying pastoral scenes found in the likes of a Frances Mayes novel. Thankfully, the follow-up to Maria ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Bilingual Being: My Life as a Hyphen

By Kathleen Saint-Onge

In her debut memoir, teacher and linguist Kathleen Saint-Onge details her fraught relationship with her native languages, English and French. Appropriately, Bilingual Being is itself written in two “languages”: prose and poetry. The latter tackles ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

By Lee Smolin

Explaining cutting-edge physics to non-physicists is a nearly impossible task. Compounding the problem is the fact that physics is grounded in mathematics, and because key concepts have to be put into layperson’s terms and illustrated ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Perfume Lover: A Personal History of Scent

By Denyse Beaulieu

In mostly breathless, giddy prose, Denyse Beaulieu, a Canadian who has made Paris her home for many years, attempts to combine the history of perfume with her own experience of it. Beaulieu writes about perfume ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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