Reviews

Taste Buds and Molecules

The authors of 3 Chefs are all highly regarded toques. Michael Bonacini co-owns a slew of Toronto-area restaurants, including the top-rated Canoe and the family-friendly Oliver & Bonacini chain. Massimo Capra, owner of Mistura and ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Exporting Democracy: The Risks and Rewards of Pursuing a Good Idea

By Bob Rae

The role of federalism in building and sustaining democracy, and the necessity for democratic nations to guide autocratic and strife-ridden nations to homegrown versions of federalism, may seem like esoteric topics for a non-academic book. ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Player One: What Is to Become of Us

By Douglas Coupland

Player One is best-selling author, artist, and now clothing designer Douglas Coupland’s contribution to the annual CBC Massey Lectures. Instead of the traditional series of five lectures, Coupland has produced a novel about four characters ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

People Live Still in Cashtown Corners

By Tony Burgess

As he has done in the past, Tony Burgess combines lyricism with graphic, cinematic violence in his two newest works of fiction. Published by different small presses, each book contains precisely rendered portraits of small, ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ravenna Gets

By Tony Burgess

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Apocalypse for Beginners

By Nicolas Dickner; Lazer Lederhendler, trans.

Nicolas Dickner’s new novel will draw comparisons to his previous work, Nikolski, which was acclaimed in Quebec and France, earned translator Lazer Lederhendler a Governor General’s Literary Award, and took top prize in the 2010 ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Are You Married to a Psychopath?

By Nadine Bismuth; Donald Winkler, trans.

Quebec writer Nadine Bismuth covers well-traversed ground in her second short story collection: the 10 stories, primarily narrated by female characters, explore various aspects of romantic relationships. The subject matter may be nothing new, but ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Pitouie

By Derek Winkler

“Adventure” and “intrigue” are two of the last words you would expect to associate with a novel in which the main character works a dead-end job as the associate editor of a waste management trade ... Read More »

January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Out of Grief, Singing

By Charlene Diehl

In 1995, Winnipeg native Charlene Diehl suffered a loss no mother should have to bear. Twenty-eight weeks into her pregnancy, she was diagnosed with severe pre-eclampsia and told that her daughter would have to be ... Read More »

January 10, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Imagining Toronto

By Amy Lavender Harris

Imagining Toronto isn’t a study of literary Toronto. Rather, it’s a study of how the city has been described and revealed in and through literature. Amy Lavender Harris, a geographer at York University, gives us ... Read More »

December 20, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

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