Reviews

Irma Voth

Miriam Toews’ follow-up to 2008’s The Flying Troutmans details its eponymous protagonist’s various attempts to answer the question, “How do I behave in this world without following the directions of my father, my husband, or ... Read More »

April 1, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Right Balance: Canada’s Conservative Tradition

By Hugh Segal

The new book by Hugh Segal, Conservative senator and longtime party operative (including a stint as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s chief of staff), is among the most engaging of the books attempting to situate and ... Read More »

March 28, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Free World

By David Bezmozgis

After Henry Roth, after Isaac Bashevis Singer, after Saul Bellow, after Philip Roth, after Grace Paley, after Mordecai Richler, after Cynthia Ozick, after countless other writers secular and religious, socialist and conservative, Zionist and assimilationist, ... Read More »

March 28, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Civil and Civic

By Jonathan Bennett

There’s nothing terribly civil about the title poem in Jonathan Bennett’s second collection, which describes a political protest that tumbles headlong into anarchic violence when the “blunt harm of a brick” is thrown at riot ... Read More »

March 21, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Patriot Hearts: Inside the Olympics That Changed a Country

By John Furlong with Gary Mason

Arriving exactly one year after the 2010 Olympics, this memoir by John Furlong, the former chief of the Vancouver Olympic Committee, is partly about the author’s journey from Ireland to Canada, and from an obscure ... Read More »

February 28, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

One Story, One Song

By Richard Wagamese

“Hopelessness is isotropic,” writes Richard Wagamese in his new collection of personal essays, “the view in every direction is the same. That’s the nut of it. It’s hard to change when everything you see looks ... Read More »

February 22, 2011 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Bride of New France

By Suzanne Desrochers

In the 17th century, hundreds of girls and women were sent from France – often against their will – to populate the New World. But little is known of these filles du roi, as they ... Read More »

February 17, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Beggar’s Garden

By Michael Christie

Michael Christie’s debut collection of nine linked stories is dazzling. Drawing on his experience working in a homeless shelter in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Christie explores the intense humanity of people living on the margins of ... Read More »

February 7, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

An Open Door in the Landscape

By Elisabeth Harvor

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award–winning poet and novelist Elisabeth Harvor’s third poetry collection could be loosely described as a book of coming of age poems. Much of it parses childhood for moments of suddenly earned wisdom ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Blood, Sweat and Tears

By David Clayton-Thomas

As the former frontman for the Canadian rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears, David Clayton-Thomas is no stranger to the spotlight. He has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and been given ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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