Reviews

The Outlander

What was Gil Adamson thinking when she titled her novel The Outlander? What was Anansi thinking? After all, that’s the name of the first book in Diana Gabaldon’s wildly successful time-travel series that spirits a ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Augustino and the Choir of Destruction

By Marie-Claire Blais; Nigel Spencer, trans.

Marie-Claire Blais, one of Quebec’s most prolific and celebrated writers, delivers the third volume in a prize-winning trilogy. Augustino and the Choir of Destruction is a dense and daring apocalyptic literary vision. Set on an ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Me, Chi and Bruce Lee

By Brian Preston

Brian Preston is a writer, not a fighter. So when he was asked to do a book about martial arts, he blanched. But not for long.A self-declared “wimpy, forty-something wuss,” Preston decided to spend a ... Read More »

July 23, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Going Around with Bachelors

By Agnes Walsh

St. John’s poet laureate Agnes Walsh is also an actor, a playwright, and a storyteller. Appropriately for an author with such a background, her second collection is accompanied by a CD. The disc was not ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Making Bones Walk

By Alex Boyd

Making Bones Walk is the first full-length collection for Toronto poet Alex Boyd. It’s a promising debut, solid, trim, and occasionally arresting (especially “Twenty Three Minutes for Everything,” the one standout poem in the book), ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

High Speed Through Shoaling Water

By Tom Wayman

Political proselytizing has been something of a vocation for Calgary-based writer and teacher Tom Wayman since the publication of his first book in 1973. In High Speed Through Shoaling Water, his 17th collection, Wayman cleaves ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Black River

By Kenneth Sherman

If Wayman is a verbal spendthrift, Toronto poet and professor Kenneth Sherman, in his 11th book, errs on the side of laconic sparseness. Black River is one long poem, a suite in 60 parts about ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs

By Fred Herzog

This volume accompanies the first major retrospective of photographer Fred Herzog, as assembled by the Vancouver Art Gallery. Arriving in Vancouver in 1953, Herzog captured, in a uniquely colourful style, the buzz and energy of ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Reflections on Islam: Ideas, Opinions, Arguments

By George Jonas

Reflections on Islam mostly comprises more than four dozen columns about Islam and terrorism written by author and National Post columnist George Jonas between 2001 and 2006. The new material – a postscript and an ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Canada in Afghanistan: The War so Far

By Peter Pigott

In his preface to Canada in Afghanistan, the U.K.-born, India-raised Peter Pigott, known mostly for his books on aviation, declares that “Kipling has always been a favourite writer of mine. In fact, I can still ... Read More »

July 12, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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