Reviews

Fear of Fighting

By Stacey May Fowles; Marlena Zuber, illus.

Fear of Fighting, Stacey May Fowles’ second novel, is as gut-wrenching as it is delightful. Fowles navigates the devastating terrain of a broken heart with grace, humour, and wit. The novel’s protagonist, a diffident Torontonian ... Read More »

November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hell or High Water: My Life In and Out of Politics

By Paul Martin

Considering the appeal of easy access to a pulpit, one of the biggest perks of political office, it is not surprising that firing off one last ideological salvo in the form of a memoir has ... Read More »

November 6, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Outliers: The Story of Success

By Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers seems, initially, to be an inadvisable pairing of author and subject. Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer for that august cultural magazine, The New Yorker, and author of two exemplary pop-science bestsellers, The Tipping Point and ... Read More »

November 6, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Distantly Related to Freud

By Ann Charney

Ann Charney’s third novel begins in Montreal in 1952. Eight-year-old Ellen gazes through her bedroom window, awaiting the arrival of the refugees who will inhabit the empty rooms of her mother’s grandiose Mount Royal home. ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Atmospheric Disturbances

By Rivka Galchen

Toronto-born, New York-raised author Rivka Galchen’s first novel is a clever, stylish debut that wears its postmodern conventions on its sleeve. The narrator is Dr. Leo Liebenstein, a psychiatrist suffering from his own paranoid delusion. ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Live Here

By Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, Michael Simons

The persistence of global poverty inspires a kind of latter-day colonialism by which good-hearted people from wealthy enclaves receive kudos for travel to places most of us would rather not hear about. While celebrities such ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Good-Bye Marianne: A Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany

By Irene N. Watts; Kathryn E. Shoemaker, illus.

Irene Watts’s Good-Bye Marianne is the story of an 11-year-old Jewish girl living in Berlin in the late 1930s. Over the course of several weeks, Marianne witnesses a murder, is barred from attending school, discovers ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Graphica

Cypress

By Barbara Klar

Love of place is a staple of poetry. (Seamus Heaney, for instance, would be a very different poet without Irish peat bogs.) All the same, it can be a tough theme to make work over ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems

By Jeanette Lynes

In this, her fourth collection, St. Francis Xavier University professor Jeanette Lynes gives us a poetic biography of 1960s diva Dusty Springfield. Lynes is perhaps best known as a funny writer, and while It’s Hard ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

Ambrosia: About a Culture

By James Cummins

In Ambrosia, Montreal author James Cummins attempts to give readers a snapshot of the history, music, and culture of electronic dance music while also contextualizing it with other music and art movements throughout history. Using ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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