Reviews

Vancouver Wild: A Photographer’s Journey Through the Southern Coast Mountains

It seems almost unfair to choose the wilderness around Vancouver as the subject of a photography book. Given how off-the-chart beautiful the place is, you’d think all you’d need to do would be point and ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Fashioning Reality: A New Generation of Entrepreneurship

By Ben Barry

Ben Barry’s life story should make for good reading. Born in Ottawa, Barry spent his teens forming his own modelling agency and recruiting normal folks of all shapes and sizes (as well as more traditionally ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka

By James Bartleman

This new book by Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor James Bartleman is a boyhood memoir of a self-described “half breed” coming of age in post-war Muskoka. Bartleman’s recollections are poignant and ring with the authenticity of vivid ... Read More »

March 27, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Too Far from Home

By Chris Jones

Once you get over the unalloyed miracle that is space flight, the days of astronauts are in some ways as pedestrian as those of their earthbound compatriots, consisting largely of sleeping, eating, talking, bodily functions, ... Read More »

March 27, 2007 | Filed under: History

Diagnosing Genius: The Life and Death of Beethoven

By François Martin Mai

In Diagnosing Genius, Ottawa psychiatrist and amateur pianist François Martin Mai proposes to examine the relationship between the creative genius of Ludwig van Beethoven and the various health problems – most notably deafness and depression, ... Read More »

March 27, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Effigy

By Alissa York

Effigy is inspired in part by a terrible footnote in the history of the West: the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah in 1857, in which a group of Mormons and Pauites massacred a party of ... Read More »

March 26, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Was She Pretty?

By Leanne Shapton

Leanne Shapton’s newest book of illustrations is all about The Ex. In it, the Toronto-born, New York-based artist and writer introduces us to people like June, whose ex-boyfriend “kept his love letters in a kitchen ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Bang Crunch

By Neil Smith

There is a school of writing – let’s call it the Dave Eggers school – that prizes cleverness above all other attributes. Not wit, mind you, but cleverness. The kind of cleverness that has an ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Helpless

By Barbara Gowdy

Like much of Barbara Gowdy’s previous work, Helpless is a love story. It is far from a straightforward one, however. Instead, Gowdy takes readers into the world of a child-abducting pedophile. We watch Ron, an ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

King John of Canada

By Scott Gardiner

A common complaint about CanLit – one that Scott Gardiner addresses in the course of his new novel, King John of Canada – is that Canada’s fiction writers seem completely uninterested in dealing with the ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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