Reviews

Albert and the Others

Possibly the most pleasant comic-book diversion to come along in the last little while is Albert and the Others by émigré Quebec cartoonist Guy Delisle. Albert is a companion volume to Delisle’s Aline and the ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Graphica

The Angel Riots

By Ibi Kaslik

Great rock ’n’ roll novels are hard to come by, probably because the kind of anarchic energy that drives the best rock music is difficult to translate onto the page. In her second novel, Ibi ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Donut: A Canadian History

By Steve Penfold

The strange thing about University of Toronto historian Steve Penfold’s new book, The Donut: A Canadian History, is that you can get through its 200-odd pages without ever experiencing a craving for a donut. Not ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America

By Erna Paris

Adding to the bumper crop of books documenting recent American misdeeds are two new titles that examine the effects of Bush’s policies. For Erna Paris, The Sun Climbs Slow marks a natural progression from her ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr

By Michelle Shephard

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Blackouts

By Craig Boyko

The title of Victoria-based Craig Boyko’s debut collection refers to many things, sometimes literally and other times more obliquely: the mandatory darkening of homes and streets during the Blitz; a person passing out due to ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

After River

By Donna Milner

A woman on difficult terms with her family comes home reluctantly to the B.C. farm where she grew up. Years ago she distanced herself from the religious faith that gives her parents much solace, and ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Valley

By Gayle Friesen

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Nikolski

By Nicolas Dickner; Lazer Lederhendler, trans.

Nikolski, as we’re told by the unnamed young man who narrates one of the three interconnected threads in this debut novel, is a tiny village on Umnak Island in the Aleutians, “inhabited by thirty-six people, ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Asylum

By André Alexis

There is a tendency among today’s more ambitious novelists to ignore or minimize the messy, contradictory inner lives of their characters in favour of highlighting broader sociological, technological, and political themes. In the big contemporary ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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