★ Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), popularly known as Mad Cow Disease, is nothing new to science, but over the past two decades the scale of human tragedy and the huge toll on the beef industry due ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter’s Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring

By Nahlah Ayed

In the Canadian media landscape, it’s a rare journalist who views reporting as a selfless calling that subjugates ego in favour of a well-reported story. That’s why Nahlah Ayed’s new memoir is a refreshing take ... Read More »

May 7, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Anatomy of Edouard Beaupré

By Sarah Kathryn York

First-time novelist Sarah Kathryn York chose an unusual format for her book about Edouard Beaupré, also known as the Willow Bunch Giant, a Canadian from a small community in Southern Saskatchewan who succumbed to tuberculosis ... Read More »

April 23, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Headmaster’s Wager

By Vincent Lam

Vincent Lam made a literary splash when his first work of fiction, the story collection Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Following his short biography of Tommy Douglas, Lam turns to ... Read More »

April 18, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shoot It! Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film

By David Spaner

In his new book, Vancouver film critic David Spaner comes frothing out of the gate like Steven Spielberg’s war horse. Shoot It! is a comprehensive study of independent cinema in the U.S., Canada, Britain, and ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

My Year of the Racehorse: Falling in Love with the Sport of Kings

By Kevin Chong

One day, out of the blue, Vancouver author Kevin Chong decided to become part owner of a racehorse. The mare in question is Blackie, the kind of horse, Chong writes, that resembles a suspicious character ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Attack of the Copula Spiders and Other Essays on Writing

By Douglas Glover

Novelist and short story writer Douglas Glover, author of the novels Elle (winner of the 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award) and The Life and Times of Captain N., among other works, has earned his bread ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ The Complete Lockpick Pornography

By Joey Comeau

It would be easy to assess Joey Comeau’s The Complete Lockpick Pornography as a simple exploration of violence and sexuality. The volume is certainly semi-pornographic and, depending on your personal or literary boundaries, refreshingly subversive. ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Deadly Accusations

By Debra Purdy Kong

Debra Purdy Kong’s second Casey Holland mystery begins with two rather prosaic situations. Kids are regularly brawling on Vancouver’s Mainland Public Transit buses, and someone is hurling stones at bus windows. Casey, considered MPT’s best ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Carpenter

By Matt Lennox

From the early 20th century to the present, from George Orwell to Ian McEwan and, most recently, Alain de Botton, there has been a tradition of taking novelists to task for failing to represent the ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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