Reviews

Whose Streets? The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest

By Tom Malleson and David Wachsmuth, eds.

The controversial G20 economic summit in Toronto has been the subject of countless articles, media stories, documentary films, works of art, and now, a book of essays. Editors Tom Malleson and David Wachsmuth focus on ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone

By Michelle Shephard

Michelle Shephard’s narrative about the decade she has dedicated to reporting on terrorism begins with Hunter S. Thompson’s famous line, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” It’s a good choice, especially as ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Facing the Hunter: Reflections on a Misunderstood Pursuit

By David Adams Richards

More than a decade after Lines on the Water, his 1998 Governor General’s Literary Award–winning non-fiction book about fishing on the Miramichi River, David Adams Richards returns to the Northern New Brunswick of his youth, ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb

By Janice Gross Stein, ed.

As Canada’s ambassador to the United States from 1981–89, Allan Gotlieb developed a new strategy to accommodate the diffuse power system in Washington. Gotlieb distinguished himself by transforming the Canadian embassy into a networking hub, ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art

By Joshua Knelman

In Hot Art, which expands on an essay that originally appeared in The Walrus, journalist Joshua Knelman takes an in-depth look at the big business of art theft. His method is straightforward: interviewing investigators and ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Butterfly Winter

By W.P. Kinsella

In 1997, beloved Western Canadian novelist and short-story writer W.P. Kinsella suffered head trauma when he was struck by a car, an accident that seemed to put an end to his writing career. As if ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ King: William Lyon Mackenzie King, A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny

By Allan Levine

William Lyon Mackenzie King was arguably Canada’s greatest prime minister; he was also probably the least likeable. In King, author and historian Allan Levine proves you don’t have to be adored by your countrymen to ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Dirty Feet

By Edem Awumey; Lazer Lederhendler,trans.

When Askia was a child, a combination of famine and drought forced him and his family from their home in Africa and condemned them to a nomadic existence wandering the Sahel desert. Their peripatetic lives ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Deluded Your Sailors: A Chronic Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Novel

By Michelle Butler Hallett

Like her previous two novels, Newfoundland author Michelle Butler Hallett’s latest defies genre classification and presents the reader with an unusual structure. The plot spans three centuries and numerous locales, while the narration combines third-person ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hold Me Now

By Stephen Gauer

Paul Brenner is an unremarkable middle-aged man, leading an unremarkable life. The Vancouver contract lawyer has a job at which he is proficient; a religious ex-wife; a mother in an assisted-living facility; a woman he ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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