One of the great joys of reading a collection of short fiction is the opportunity to experience a writer at play. Characters, themes, absurdities, and moods that could become overwhelming in a novel are somehow ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
T.F. Rigelhof has been a critic and enthusiast of Canadian literature for decades, long enough to pine for the days when Montreal’s The Double Hook bookstore (which closed in 2005) was a hub for a ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
The Canadian Century is tantamount to a manifesto for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a policy think tank for which lead author Brian Lee Crowley serves as managing director. It is a political tract that, at points, ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
With her first book for adults, prolific children’s author Kathy Kacer has chosen a very compelling story. Restitution is about Karl Reeser, a member of a prominent Jewish family who had to flee Czechoslovakia in ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: History
No matter what you eat, how you dress, or where you live, your life would change for the worse if a few key insects disappeared. Although there are only a handful of pollinators among the ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Academic military historians tend to write for other military historians, and the history of the Canadian army in the Second World War is no exception. Historians have proffered their theses on the subject without addressing ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: History
Only Douglas Coupland could have written Marshall McLuhan. In his contribution to Penguin’s Extraordinary Canadians biography series, Coupland challenges the grandiose nationalistic poise of the series, and indeed the very nature of biography itself. Employing ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
It’s nearly impossible to go to a fashionable restaurant in Canada and not encounter the local food movement. Menus these days are loaded with adjectives specifying the geographic origin or pedigree of the foods on ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Food & Drink
There isn’t a pronounced anti-realist tradition in CanLit, despite isolated offerings from writers as diverse as Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers) and Stephen Marche (Shining at the Bottom of the Sea). For most fiction writers in ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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