Reviews

The Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of North America

Would North America be the same without the lives of two boys, both born in the same walled city in 1451? Cristoforo Colombo and Giovanni Caboto left Genoa separately as young men, went on to ... Read More »

August 20, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Echoes of Empire: Victoria and Its Remarkable Buildings

By Robin Ward

Vancouver Sun readers know Robin Ward from his tony weekly column that tracks local architecture. With titles such as “B.C.’s oldest dairy is tastefully preserved,” these short essays, accompanied by Ward’s etchy line drawings, are ... Read More »

August 20, 2010 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Sunray: The Death and Life of Captain Nichola Goddard

By Valerie Fortney

On May 17, 2006, at approximately 7 p.m. Afghanistan time, Forward Observation Officer Captain Nichola Goddard earned a tragic place in Canadian history: she became the first female Canadian soldier to die in combat. Although ... Read More »

August 16, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle

By J.A. Wainwright

The visual artist Robert Markle (1936–90) was a Mohawk from southern Ontario who believed “people should be aware [that] you can be a Native Canadian and still understand [that] Christopher Wren is wonderful and Rembrandt ... Read More »

August 3, 2010 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Fauna

By Alissa York

Alissa York’s Fauna is an extraordinary novel. A departure from the author’s previous, more historically minded works (including 2007’s Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated Effigy), Fauna takes place in the hidden, wild corners of present-day Toronto, where ... Read More »

August 3, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Man in Uniform

By Kate Taylor

Parisian lawyer Dubon is a man of routine. He spends his days drafting wills, early evening is devoted to his mistress, and he’s home by 7:30 for dinner with his wife. This careful structure begins ... Read More »

July 26, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Still Missing

By Chevy Stevens

Annie O’Sullivan has good reason to complain during her regularly scheduled therapy sessions. But the thirtysomething’s revelations go far beyond Portnoy-style gripes. Where once her hometown, the tiny Vancouver Island hamlet of Clayton Falls, was ... Read More »

July 22, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Sword of My Mouth: A Post-Rapture Graphic Novel

By Jim Munroe; Shannon Gerard, illus.

With Sword of My Mouth, Jim Munroe returns to the post-Rapture dystopia he introduced in 2007’s Therefore, Repent! Working with illustrator Shannon Gerard (who takes over from Salgood Sam for this instalment), Munroe has created ... Read More »

July 12, 2010 | Filed under: Graphica

The Warhol Gang

By Peter Darbyshire

“Trotsky,” the code-named narrator of Peter Darbyshire’s sophomore novel, is a lot like the unnamed protagonist of Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel Fight Club. He’s urban, disgruntled, savvy, aimless, underpaid, and deeply skeptical of the corporate ... Read More »

June 28, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America

By Derek Lundy

The events of 9/11 changed the borderlands of the U.S. irrevocably. The longest undefended border in the world is disappearing, soon to be a memory. The Land of the Free is quickly becoming Fortress America, ... Read More »

June 14, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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