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Chimo

By David Collier

For over 20 years, David Collier has made comics about Canada’s freaks, weirdos, and underdogs. In Chimo, he changes course, dramatizing his own struggle to re-enlist in the Canadian military after hitting 40. His goal ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Graphica

Folk

By Jacob McArthur Mooney

Inspired in part by the 1998 crash of Swiss-air Flight 111 offshore of Nova Scotia, Jacob McArthur Mooney’s second collection examines human tragedy and the limits of community. Folk undertakes an intelligent effort to reject ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Erasing Memory

By Scott Thornley

Why do crime-fiction readers love series so much? The best explanation I can come up with involves merging two oft-repeated axioms: “get in late, leave early” and “leave ’em wanting more.” The best series fiction ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ortona Street Fight

By Mark Zuehlke

Mark Zuehlke, one of the best-known chroniclers of Canadian military history, has found a new vehicle to tell the tale of Canada’s first major Second World War victory. But in the process he has been ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: History

Idaho Winter

By Tony Burgess

Tony Burgess is one of Canadian fiction’s most distinctive voices, characterized by a penchant for pushing envelopes and going to uncomfortable extremes. Idaho Winter, a short novel about a short novel that goes off the ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels