Reviews

Expressway

In her first book of poems since her collection Lemon Hound, Montreal-based Sina Queyras employs the Romantic tradition of pastoral poetry to create passionate indictments of our consumerist, car-obsessed culture and our fast-lane mentality. In ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Pigeon

By Karen Solie

Karen Solie achieved near-instant acclaim with the multiple award nominations and wins heaped on her first collection, Short Haul Engine. If her excellent follow-up, Modern and Normal, didn’t prove outright that Solie wasn’t resting on ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Fortune Favours the Brave: Tales of Courage and Tenacity in Canadian Military History

By Colonel Bernd Horn, ed.

“In the end, our nation’s military has always shown courage, tenacity, and daring.” Such is the thesis of Fortune Favours the Brave, edited by Colonel Bernd Horn, historian and deputy commander of Canada’s Special Operations ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: History

Wild Blue: A Natural History of the World’s Largest Animal

By Dan Bortolotti

Before human greed and exploitation took its toll, the ocean was home to more than 300,000 blue whales. After half a century of horrific slaughter, and in the face of an indifferent public that doesn’t ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Buying Cigarettes for the Dog

By Stuart Ross

Buying Cigarettes for the Dog is the latest short fiction collection from Toronto writer and tireless small-press activist Stuart Ross. A considerable number of these stories have appeared in various periodicals, anthologies, and chapbooks since ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights

By Ezra Levant

At a time when Canada’s police and CSIS are implicated in the arrest, rendition, and torture in foreign prisons of Muslim Canadians, while the current Prime Minister refuses to intervene on their behalf, there are ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Where Am I? Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon but Get Lost in the Mall

By Colin Ellard

A homing pigeon released hundreds of miles away from its roost can somehow find its way home. Take the average Canadian city dweller and put him or her in the middle of a dense forest, ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

A History of Canadian Culture

By Jonathan F. Vance

As a rejoinder to those critics who find Canadian culture boring (or non-existent), Jonathan Vance’s ambitious, insightful new book provides proof that this country has a rich and often under-appreciated cultural heritage. Defining “culture” as ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Rocket: A Cultural History of Maurice Richard

By Benoît Melançon; Fred A. Reed, trans.

Originally published in Quebec in 2006, The Rocket is being released in English this year to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Montreal Canadiens. However, if you are looking for good ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Blowback: A Canadian History of Agent Orange and the War at Home

By Chris Arsenault

Most people associate the deadly chemical defoliant Agent Orange with the U.S. war in Vietnam. But freelance journalist Chris Arsenault has uncovered a disturbing Canadian connection that paints a portrait of human and environmental devastation ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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