Reviews

★ Web of Angels

The facts of tragedy can be offensively clean and unadorned. I learned this a few days before Christmas, when a friend charged me with the task of disseminating the information that someone she knew had ... Read More »

March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Stray Love

By Kyo Maclear

The title of Toronto writer Kyo Maclear’s second novel provides many clues as to what’s between the covers: over the course of the story, love strays, lovers stray, and strays are loved. These are just ... Read More »

February 27, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Placebo Effect

By David Rotenberg

With The Placebo Effect, Toronto writer and theatre professional David Roten-berg delivers an effective, if somewhat workmanlike, thriller possessed of an enthralling undercurrent that allows it to transcend its genre and shine on its own ... Read More »

February 13, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Blue Dragon

By Robert Lepage and Marie Michaud; Fred Jourdain, illus.

It may seem odd that Robert Lepage – arguably one of Canada’s greatest theatrical talents – has decided, relatively late in his career, to publish a graphic novel. But Lepage’s company, Ex Machina, is a ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Graphica

A Walker in the City

By Meira Cook

Méira Cook’s third book of poetry contains a long poem composed of seven interlocking sections. Multiple characters emerge, recede, and are created, for the most part, by writing each other into existence. The arresting first ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

Committing Theatre: Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada

By Alan Filewod

Alan Filewod, a renowned theatre historian at the University of Guelph in Ontario, is that rare breed of academic who has dedicated his career to studying Canadian theatrical history from a “radical” perspective while also ... Read More »

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

How Hockey Explains Canada: The Sport that Defines a Country

By Paul Henderson with Jim Prime

The next time our federal immigration minister decides to revise study materials for the citizenship test, he may want to consider including this quick history of Canada’s game. The book contains a lengthy and engrossing ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Golden Age of Liberalism: A Portrait of Roméo LeBlanc

By Naomi E.S. Griffiths

This putative biography of Roméo LeBlanc is less a story about the man than a survey of the places, issues, and times through which he passed on his journey from rural poverty in New Brunswick ... Read More »

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

The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food

By Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik’s latest collection of essays examines the “question of food.” Best known as a writer for The New Yorker and now the author of the 2011 CBC Massey Lectures, Gopnik is a self-professed Francophile. ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts

By David McMillan, Frédéric Morin, and Meredith Erickson

Canada does not have a great track record when it comes to cookbooks inspired by our best restaurants. Indeed, for every Canadian restaurant that has published an accompanying cookbook domestically, one could name five deserving ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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