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The Ethical Imagination

In The Ethical Imagination, Margaret Somerville, who holds positions in the faculties of Law and Medicine at McGill University, speaks in a public voice as opposed to an academic one. This is the case not ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Reference

i-ROBOT

By Jason Christie

Poetry about robots has “disaster” written all over it. But surprisingly, the poetry in i-ROBOT is peppered with enough playfulness that the reader doesn’t feel compelled to hunt for deep meaning in the sci-fi verse.Instead, ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Red Ledger

By Mary Dalton

Newfoundland author Mary Dalton’s latest book is more like her 1993 collection, Allowing the Light, than her outstanding 2004 offering, Merrybegot – in fact, there are poems from the earlier book reprinted in this one. ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

The World of the Polar Bear

By Norbert Rosing

“The Arctic experience in winter is mostly about learning to love the cold,” a young Inuk told Norbert Rosing at a Winnipeg library in February 1983. “Luckily, you don’t have to go all the way ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister’s Memoir

By Heather Summerhayes Cariou

It goes without saying that chronic and terminal illness almost always has a devastating effect on those closest to the patient, particularly the immediate family. As if to support Tolstoy’s notion that “each unhappy family ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Requiem for My Brother

By Marian Botsford Fraser

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Christmas Tree: Two Tales for the Holidays

By David Adams Richards; Vince McIndoe, illus.

There’s nothing like the commissioning of a holiday volume to herald a writer’s induction into the CanLit canon. David Adams Richards steps up with the stocking-stuffer-sized The Christmas Tree. The book contains two very short ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Orphan Love

By Nadia Bozak

The characters in Nadia Bozak’s first novel are bashed up and beaten down, disappointed and disenfranchised. The story follows a runaway punker named Bozak – who is presumably not the author but a character with ... Read More »

February 26, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Garcia’s Heart

By Liam Durcan

With this remarkable debut novel, Liam Duncan, a neurologist and the author of the much-lauded short story collection A Short Journey by Car (2004), has firmly ensconced himself within the hallowed ranks of doctors making ... Read More »

February 19, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Outcast

By José Latour

Eliot Steil, the antihero at the centre of José Latour’s wonderful new mystery, was born in 1950 to a Cuban mother and an American father, a businessman in the sugar industry. Young Eliot and his ... Read More »

February 12, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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