Reviews

★ When She Was Queen

The newest book from M.G. Vassanji (after 2003’s Giller-winning The In-Between World of Vikram Lall) is a gripping collection of short stories that span the globe, from Toronto to Africa and beyond. The narratives are ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting

By Darren Wershler-Henry

There’s a current vogue for histories of various objects of arcana, but Darren Wershler-Henry takes the genre a step further with a book that is not actually a history of the typewriter – books of ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Love in the Time of Cholesterol: A Memoir with Recipes

By Cecily Ross

There is a jarring honesty to this memoir of a couple’s struggle with heart disease. Laid bare are the details of quadruple bypass surgery: pumps and fluids, depression and blood pressure. Cecily Ross – an ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia

By Dragan Todorovic

Though it has never really gone away, the once-fusty memoir has recently enjoyed both a revival and a refreshing in the shape of poignant dispatches from troubled lands and poppy chronicles of Western life by ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison

By William Sampson

In an age of tell-all memoirs that often tell very little, William Sampson provides instead a challenging memoir that spares no details in his account of surviving three years of torture, detention in solitary confinement, ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ With Every Mistake

By Gwynne Dyer

A collection of newspaper columns is supposed to act as a gap-filler for a publisher and a quick ego-stroke for its author. A column, after all, is the reactionary, unreflective bastard child of the essay, ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ Airstream Land Yacht

By Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock’s third collection might disappoint those hoping for another clutch of tough-luck chronicles along the lines of Mean and its follow-up, Days into Flatspin. While those first two books seemed rooted in the same ... Read More »

March 27, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Inside

By Kenneth J. Harvey

Kenneth J. Harvey writes in short, staccato sentences. Every word a jab. A knife. A fist. Verbal cuts. Makes Hemingway seem like a blabbermouth. The Newfoundland author’s latest novel follows 2003’s The Town That Forgot ... Read More »

March 20, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Race for Real Sailors: The Bluenose and the International Fishermen’s Cup, 1920-1938

By Keith McLaren

Is there anyone in Canada who doesn’t know that the Bluenose schooner is on the back of the Canadian dime? If there is, B.C. author Keith McLaren tells them this fat three or four times ... Read More »

March 6, 2006 | Filed under: History

The Birth House

By Ami McKay

Although she is Knopf’s New Face of Fiction for 2006, Ami McKay springs from a venerable tradition of Maritime storytelling. Her engaging first novel, set in rural Nova Scotia around the time of the First ... Read More »

February 27, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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