Reviews

★ Kenk: A Graphic Portrait

By Richard Poplak; Nick Marinkovich, illus.

Kenk is a book that merges several mediums, a “hybrid project that simultaneously takes the form of journalistic profile, documentary film, and comic book.” It began life as a film about Igor Kenk, Toronto’s internationally ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Graphica

For and Against

By Sharon McCartney

The title of Sharon McCartney’s latest collection is indicative of the poet’s ambivalence toward her main subjects – surviving breast cancer, undergoing the protracted illness and death of a sibling, and enduring the even slower ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

Patternicity

By Jim Johnstone

The term “patternicity,” as writer Michael Shermer explains in a 2008 Scientific American article, refers to the human predisposition “to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise.” It is an attempt to impose order on what ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

The Flight of the Patriot: Escape from Revolutionary Iran

By Yadi Sharifirad

When the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, he promised freedom from the tyranny of the Shah of Iran. For many Iranians, such as Yadi Sharifirad, Khomeini merely replaced one gang of infamous torturers ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Annabel

By Kathleen Winter

A universal concern – the importance of self-determination – takes a highly specific form in Kathleen Winter’s first novel, the story of an intersex child born in a remote coastal Labrador village in 1968. Intersex ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Global Forest

By Diana Beresford-Kroeger

In the introduction to her new book, Canadian botanist, researcher, and lecturer Diana Beresford-Kroeger recalls the way Irish storytellers, the “living memory bank of [their] race,” treated their subjects. The rhythm and style of Beresford-Kroeger’s ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada

By Pam Chamberlain, ed.

Work. That’s the inescapable focus of Country Roads, a collection of 34 memoirs by Canadians with a farm past – and a few who still live on farms. However, this kind of labour is seen ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: History

★ The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter’s Fifteen-year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth About Mulroney, Schreiber, and the Airbus Scandal

By Harvey Cashore

Earlier this year, New York University’s journalism school released a list of the top 10 works of journalism produced in the U.S. since 2000, as voted on by a panel of journalists and educators. If ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Real Gone

By Jim Christy

Real Gone is a meandering novella about a draft dodger in the 1960s who moves to Canada. Written by one-time American Jim Christy, who relocated to Canada in 1968, the book reads like a memoir. ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Find

By Kathy Page

Kathy Page’s latest novel opens with the discovery of an enormous prehistoric fossil in remote B.C. Anna Silowski, a renowned palaeontologist and consummate heartbreaker, is prospecting in the native community of Big Crow when, after ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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