Reviews

The Incident Report

As its title suggests, Martha Baillie’s fourth novel consists of a series of “incident reports” written by Miriam Gordon, a 35-year-old employee of the Toronto Public Library. Miriam is a “Public Service Assistant” at Allan ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Perfecting

By Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Toronto writer Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer’s second novel pivots on the character of Curtis Woolf, who flees his New Mexico home for Ontario, where he establishes up a religious commune known as the Family. Years later, Curtis’s ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music … From Hank Snow to The Band

By Jason Schneider

In Whispering Pines, Jason Schneider, one of Canada’s authorities on the subject of roots music, turns his expertise to the little-known Canadian origin of some of the 20th century’s most famous American popular music. Using ... Read More »

June 29, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Who’s Your Daddy? And Other Writings on Queer Parenting

By Rachel Epstein, ed.

If you believe the queer baby boom is proof that LGBT folks really are just like everyone else, think again. Who’s Your Daddy?, a provocative set of essays, argues that queer parenting is about exploding ... Read More »

June 22, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Step Closer

By Tessa McWatt

Tessa McWatt’s fourth novel for adults is a powerful and suspenseful examination of relationships and the secrets that can both create and destroy them. McWatt creates suspense by flashing backward and forward in time. In ... Read More »

June 15, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

After the Red Night

By Christiane Frenette; Sheila Fischman,trans.

After the Red Night, the latest novel by Quebec author Christiane Frenette, opens with brief “gesture drawings” of its five characters three nights after Rimouski’s “la nuit rouge” in May 1950, when fire devastated half ... Read More »

June 8, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Exclusion Principle

By Leona Gom

Astronomer Avey Fleming and his wife Kate strive to keep their feet on the ground while reaching for the stars in The Exclusion Principle, the latest work by veteran novelist and poet Leona Gom. When ... Read More »

May 25, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Collected Doug Wright: Canada’s Master Cartoonist

By Doug Wright; Seth, ed.

This shiny, retro-modern-style coffee table book on the work of the once-celebrated cartoonist Doug Wright, edited by well-known comic book artist Seth, is a beautiful object. Filled with full-page strips and blown-up illustrations, the book ... Read More »

May 19, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Where We Have to Go

By Lauren Kirshner

A young Toronto girl blossoms into adulthood in Lauren Kirshner’s sweet and touching debut Where We Have to Go. Like adolescence itself, the novel contains some moments of awkward fumbling, but wins the reader over ... Read More »

May 11, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip

By Lisa Robertson

Ex-Vancouverite Lisa Robertson’s eighth book is classified as poetry, but is no straightforward volume of lyrics. It also contains “essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias” written between 1995 and 2007. Robertson’s work ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

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