Reviews

Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic

Everything seems to be coming up Anne Shirley in this, the centenary of the first publication of Anne of Green Gables. Rather than simply rehashing available material, Ryerson professor and noted literary researcher Irene Gammel ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: History

Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery

By Elizabeth Rollins Epperly

In addition to writing 20 novels, 500 short stories, and 500 poems, Lucy Maud Montgomery was an avid scrapbooker most of her life. She collected fashion illustrations, fabric swatches, newspaper clippings (of marriages, deaths, and ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Carnivore Chic: From Pasture to Plate, a Search for the Perfect Meat

By Susan Bourette

For Taras Grescoe, the decline of the oceans is personally distressing. A self-described “piscavore” (fish eater) for 10 years running, the Montreal-based food and travel writer is nothing if not adventurous: over the course of ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Coventry

By Helen Humphreys

Similar to her 2002 novel, The Lost Garden, Helen Humphreys’ sixth novel is concerned with finding one’s bearings in a world made unrecognizable by war. During the Second World War, on the night of the ... Read More »

August 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Flying Troutmans

By Miriam Toews

The considerable charm of Miriam Toews’ fiction comes, in part, from her ability to create characters in situations of long-term duress with a brilliantly emulsified mix of repression and humour, punctuated by bursts of real ... Read More »

August 15, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Soul of the World: Unlocking the Secrets of Time

By Christopher Dewdney

In Acquainted with the Night, poet and non-fiction writer Christopher Dewdney explored the nighttime realm through the complementary lenses of science and art. Now, in Soul of the World, Dewdney brings this two-pronged approach to ... Read More »

July 31, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

By Michael Petrou

When General Franco rebelled against the Spanish government in 1936, more than 1,700 Canadians volunteered to fight in that country’s civil war. Very little was known about the volunteers, many of whom, due to the ... Read More »

July 31, 2008 | Filed under: History

The Man Game

By Lee Henderson

Readers familiar with the grim suburban landscape of Lee Henderson’s 2002 short-story collection The Broken Record Technique may be surprised to discover that the Saskatoon-born, Vancouver-dwelling author’s debut novel digs deep into the hoary ground ... Read More »

July 30, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games

By Christopher A. Shaw

In the 19th century, travelling carnivals roamed the American West, promising spectacular sideshows, games of skill, and unforgettable thrills. It was only after the roadshow had rolled on that the townsfolk, their pockets emptied, would ... Read More »

July 14, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

My Life As a Dame: The Personal and the Political in the Writings of Christina McCall

By Christina McCall; Stephen Clarkson, ed.

The most touching parts of My Life As a Dame, a collection of punditry and feature writing from journalist Christina McCall, who died in 2005, are the brief but heartfelt introductions to each chapter penned ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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