Monkey Ranch

Montreal native Julie Bruck’s third collection of poems is also her first since 1999. The intervening years have seen seismic shifts in aesthetics, but Bruck, now based in San Francisco, has produced a timely reminder ... Read More »

March 26, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

Paradoxides

By Don McKay

Don McKay’s 12th collection is his first since the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize–winning Strike/Slip. Despite the fact that this new volume is weighted toward verse about aging and life’s inevitable deterioration, its paradoxically upbeat and ... Read More »

March 22, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

The Juliet Stories

By Carrie Snyder

Like her first book, Hair Hat, Carrie Snyder’s sophomore offering is a collection of linked short stories. Here they are arranged in a novelistic arc, following the titular heroine from a childhood caught between foreign ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Sweet Sixteen: The Journey That Inspired the Canadian Women’s Press Club

By Linda Kay

In 1904, when veteran newspaper correspondent Margaret Graham met with the Canadian Pacific Railway to request sponsorship for an all-women’s press junket to the World’s Fair in St. Louis, the company jumped at the chance. ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution

By Jennifer Cockrall-King

When Edmonton-based food writer Jennifer Cockrall-King began to notice city-dwellers obsessing about growing food themselves instead of simply shopping at farmers’ markets, she wondered whether it was just another passing fad or the beginning of ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Lynn Crawford’s Pitchin’ In: 100 Great Recipes from Simple Ingredients

By Lynn Crawford

With chef Lynn Crawford’s Pitchin’ In, Penguin Canada continues to produce splendid cookbooks by Canadian chefs. The sixth title in a new program that Penguin launched in fall 2010, Pitchin’ In is born of the ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic

By Will Aitken

For a long time gays and lesbians were acceptable in literature and film only so long as they were evil, tragic, or doomed. That’s the conclusion held by many queer scholars, like Vito Russo, author ... Read More »

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

Zero Patience: A Queer Film Classic

By Susan Knabe and Wendy Gay Pearson

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

Lake on the Mountain

By Jeffrey Round

Jeffrey Round’s sixth novel can’t quite decide what it wants to be. It is alternately a lyrical evocation of one of Ontario’s strangest phenomena, Prince Edward County’s elevated lake, which never runs dry despite lacking ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Next One to Fall

By Hilary Davidson

Following the death of her addict sister, Lily Moore is in Peru for a working holiday. Like her creator, Toronto-born author Hilary Davidson, Lily is a travel writer, and that background pays off in Davidson’s ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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