Reviews

Seven Good Reasons Not to Be Good

In his debut novel, the follow-up to 2003’s Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated story collection Kilter: 55 Fictions, John Gould delivers punch after emotional punch, pulling readers into his characters’ manic and often tragic lives. A movie ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Girl Unwrapped

By Gabriella Goliger

Toni Goldblatt never feels quite as she should. Everything – from her body to her parents to her religion – seems somehow off. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Toni (short for Antonia) is an only ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Zero History

By William Gibson

Starting with 2003’s Pattern Recognition, famed science-fiction author William Gibson has been taking apart the techno-thriller and putting the pieces back together in new and interesting ways. Pattern Recognition (for my money, Gibson’s best book ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms

By George Murray

George Murray’s fourth book of poetry is a selection of 409 aphorisms – those sometimes philosophic, sometimes sophomoric distillations of thought invented by Hippocrates and perfected by Yogi Berra. Murray is one of the few ... Read More »

November 1, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail and Why We Believe Them Anyway

By Dan Gardner

That we cannot predict the future with any certainty is not all that shocking a revelation. Nevertheless, Ottawa Citizen columnist Dan Gardner provides an engaging tour through the recent history, science, psychology, and economics of ... Read More »

October 25, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Midway

By David Homel

In his sixth novel, Montreal writer and translator David Homel delves into the relationship between fathers and sons. Ben Allen is at the midway point between his 80-year-old father, Morris, and his teenage son, Tony. ... Read More »

October 18, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Sarah Court

By Craig Davidson

Fredericton-based writer Craig Davidson’s 2006 book The Preserve, written under the pseudonym Patrick Lestewka, was a horror novel set in northern Canada. Under his own name, he published the more literary Rust and Bone in ... Read More »

October 12, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Beauty and Sadness

By André Alexis

People shouldn’t prejudge this brilliant book by novelist and playwright André Alexis on the basis of the long pre-publication excerpt – an indictment of Canadian book reviewing – that appeared last June in The Walrus ... Read More »

October 4, 2010 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ Light Lifting

By Alexander MacLeod

Light Lifting is one of those rare debuts: a breathtakingly good collection of short fiction that heralds the arrival of a significant new talent. It’s also the sort of book one worries won’t get the ... Read More »

September 20, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Room

By Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue steps outside of her comfort zone with Room, her new novel. The Irish-born novelist, who now makes her home in London, Ontario, is known primarily for her richly detailed historical fiction (such as ... Read More »

September 7, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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