Reviews

The Supreme Orchestra

By David Turgeon; Pablo Strauss (trans.)

On a snowy winter day in the fictional European city of Bruant, a mysterious stranger named Fabrice Mansaré (a.k.a. Charles Rose) walks into an art gallery in search of pictures to decorate his apartment. The ... Read More »

November 8, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward

By Tanya Talaga

In 1907, Duncan Campbell Scott, the superintendent of the Indian Act, turned down a request from the chief medical officer of Canada for additional funding to improve conditions in certain residential schools where 25 per ... Read More »

November 8, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Cujo: The Untold Story of My Life On and Off the Ice

By Curtis Joseph; Kirstie McLellan Day

For horror fans, Cujo is the story of a rabid dog made famous by Stephen King. For hockey fans – especially those partial to the Toronto Maple Leafs – Cujo is Curtis Joseph, one of ... Read More »

November 5, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Oldness; or, The Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O

By Brett Josef Grubisic

Marcus O, the focal character of the odd and winning new novel from Vancouver writer Brett Josef Grubisic, is something of a cranky, crusty misanthrope. When readers first meet the mid-level academic in October 2023 ... Read More »

November 5, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada’s 1%

By Lars Osberg

In The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada’s 1%, Dalhousie University professor Lars Osberg employs an effective mixture of hard data, well-placed anecdotes, and solutions to create a thorough and multifaceted examination ... Read More »

October 29, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Death Scene Artist

By Andrew Wilmot

Even the most successful authors have certain (often early) work they’re not proud of: scenes they would deem poorly written or storylines they abandoned, considered unworthy of pursuing to completion. How can a writer sense ... Read More »

October 25, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Summer Cannibals

By Melanie Hobson

October 25, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Motherhood: The Mother of All Sexism

By Marilyse Hamelin; Arielle Aaronson (trans.)

An admirable boldness infuses Marilyse Hamelin’s Motherhood: The Mother of All Sexism, originally published in French in 2017. She dares to speak out about discrimination against women in Quebec – a province that, with its ... Read More »

October 25, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Death and Life of Strother Purcell

By Ian Weir

Ian Weir’s third novel is an epic, gun-slinging western that nimbly stretches 174 years from a blood feud in antebellum North Carolina to Hell’s Gate and the Cariboo Gold Rush of the Fraser River Valley ... Read More »

October 22, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dreaming Sally: A True Story of First Love, Sudden Death and Long Shadows

By James FitzGerald

James FitzGerald’s second book, What Disturbs Our Blood, explored his family’s history of mental illness and his attempt to understand his father’s suicidal impulses. (The book won the 2010 Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize.) In Dreaming ... Read More »

October 22, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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