Reviews

Cities of Refuge

Over the past decade, we’ve been inundated with op-ed essays lamenting the lack of a truly urban Canadian literature. Those essays tend to cite statistics demonstrating a consistent demographic shift to urban living throughout the ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Every Lost Country

By Steven Heighton

High-altitude adventure meets morality tale in Steven Heighton’s third novel. While mountain climbing along the Nepal–Tibet border, an altruistic doctor named Lewis Book, his daughter, and a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker are drawn into an international crisis ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Hungry Mirror

By Lisa de Nikolits

Lisa de Nikolits’ first novel is an unconventional treatment of eating disorders, which are often presented in fiction as merely an adolescent phase. De Nikolits shows how such disorders can in fact continue into adulthood. ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Brown Dwarf

By K.D. Miller

There are several ways to pen a story concerning young girls and criminal acts. One method: treat it lightly, à la Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mysteries, playing the crime as an old-fashioned puzzler. Another ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Such a Good Education

By France Théoret; Luise von Flotow, trans.

There is one word that overwhelmingly comes to mind while reading Such a Good Education: bleak. The novel, set in Montreal during the waning years of “The Great Darkness” under Maurice Duplessis, practically reeks of ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

One Bloody Thing After Another

By Joey Comeau

Following 2009’s Overqualified, Joey Comeau returns with another slim, quirky novel. The earlier volume contained a series of faux-confessional job application letters. Taking up where that book left off, One Bloody Thing After Another opens ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation

By John Boyko

At first glance, there is something almost reassuringly Canadian about the fact that R.B. Bennett, who was prime minister during the worst years of the Great Depression, between 1930 and 1935, has mostly avoided the ... Read More »

May 31, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Ronald Reagan, My Father

By Brian Joseph Davis

Ronald Reagan, My Father, the third book by Toronto author and multi-disciplinary artist Brian Joseph Davis, continues to mine fixations that will be familiar to his readers: pop culture, politics, film, and cultural theory. In ... Read More »

May 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Truth About Delilah Blue

By Tish Cohen

In a previous life, Lila Mack had been Delilah Blue Lovett, living out an idyllic childhood in Toronto with her unconventional mother, Elisabeth. Everything changed, however, when at age eight, her father, Victor, whisked her ... Read More »

May 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Reader on Reading

By Alberto Manguel

In 1998, Alberto Manguel released Into the Looking Glass Wood, a collection of essays that, in its indirect way, pays obeisance to the enduring genius of Lewis Carroll. His new collection, A Reader on Reading, ... Read More »

May 10, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

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