Reviews

Vancouver Special

Vancouver is notoriously difficult to pin down or define. The city is characterized more by its contradictions than by any overarching symbol or mindset: its natural beauty is at odds with its metropolitan leanings; its ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Edible City: Toronto’s Food from Farm to Fork

By Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, eds.

Edible City addresses the past, present, and future of food in Toronto. Like its predecessors – uTOpia, GreenTOpia, and HTO – the book is a fascinating mix of political advocacy, social history, and reportage. The ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ The Best Canadian Essays 2009

By Alex Boyd and Carmine Starnino, eds.

The word “essay” comes from the French verb essayer, which means “to try.” Essays, therefore, should always be considered works in progress. But the 14 pieces in Best Canadian Essays 2009, culled from literary and ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Anthologies

Queer Film Classics: Trash

By Jon Davies

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, notes author Jon Davies in his new study of the counterculture classic Trash, a 1970 film produced by Andy Warhol and directed by Paul Morrissey. But what it ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

On the Head of a Pin

By Janet Kellough

The death of a son or daughter is capable of producing emotional devastation from which it is nearly impossible to recover. For Thaddeus Lewis, a preacher who travels throughout Upper Canada in the late 1830s, ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blood and Groom

By Jill Edmondson

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Love Struck

By Chantel Simmons

Chick lit: love it or hate it, it must be acknowledged that there are good examples of the maligned genre and not-so-good examples. Chantel Simmons’ debut, 2007’s Stuck in Downward Dog, was the former, with ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Something Remains

By Hassan Gehdi Santur

One-time war photographer Andrew Christensen, the main character in this debut novel, now takes portraits of willing customers who enter the cab he drives around Toronto. Andrew’s mother, Ella, has just died of cancer, and ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Parabolist

By Nicholas Ruddock

Occasionally the title of a book contains such an obscure word that the reviewer is forced to begin his or her review with a dictionary definition. In the case of Nicholas Ruddock’s The Parabolist, though, ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dog Eat Rat

By Tom Walmsley

The characters in Toronto poet and playwright Tom Walmsley’s new novel, Dog Eat Rat, have sex. Some of them have other occupations, like private investigator, but their jobs leave them empty and with a lot ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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