Reviews

Ravenna Gets

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

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

They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers

By Roméo Dallaire

Roméo Dallaire came to global attention for his efforts to stop the Rwandan genocide while serving with the U.N. He also received enormous praise for his book on the subject, Shake Hands with the Devil, ... Read More »

December 13, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Trouble with Billionaires: Why Too Much Money at the Top Is Bad for Everyone

By Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

The Trouble with Billionaires isn’t exclusively focused on exposing the problems caused by individuals with buckets of money. It is more concerned with how our culture, our government, and our economic system has allowed a ... Read More »

November 22, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Here Is Where We Disembark

By Clea Roberts

There is something about the bleakness and epic geographical scale of the Canadian North that arrests the collective imagination – something to do with our romanticized notions of survival in inhospitable climes, our respect (though ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

Indexical Elegies

By Jon Paul Fiorentino

In a book of short stories, a novel, and a handful of poetry collections over the past decade or so, Montreal writer, editor, and publisher Jon Paul Fiorentino has embraced and celebrated his anxieties, nervous ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

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