Reviews

Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China

In her newest book, St. Thomas University journalism professor and former Globe and Mail columnist Jan Wong attempts to recreate the success of travelogue memoirs like Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love – taking herself, along ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Sports and Pastimes

By Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard; Aimee Wall (trans.)

A lot has been written about millennials, a generation that has supposedly forsaken home ownership, careerism, and casual sex in favour of social media and bespoke underwear. A cohort of entitled, lazy, disinterested narcissists who ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Original Face

By Guillaume Morissette

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lightfoot

By Nicholas Jennings

How does a biographer say something new and insightful about well-known public figures who have already had large dollops of ink spilled on their behalf? Authors David Yaffe and Nicholas Jennings take distinctly different approaches ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Ghost Warning

By Kara Stanley

Seventeen-year-old Lou James recalls her journalist father saying to her in a moment of reflection, “Maybe there is no point in living or dying, other than the overarching point that we are biological organisms trying ... Read More »

October 31, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Montreal Noir

By Jacques Filippi (ed.); John McFetridge (ed.)

There is a particular sensibility associated with the noir genre in both film and literature. Steeped in shadow and gloom, with origins in German expressionism, the noir temperament is saturated in booze, sex, and sin. ... Read More »

October 31, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Thousand Consolations

By Julie Roorda

“Love is not an emotion, but a sense.” Thus begins Julie Roorda’s sweetly funny debut novel, a story of the unexpected romance between Paula, a grieving Toronto widow, and Héctor Vargas, a pianist on the ... Read More »

October 26, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment

By Claude Lalumière

There is a Monty Python sketch from 1969 called “Candid Photography” (or sometimes simply “Nudge, Nudge”), in which a young rake interrogates an older, conservative man about his sex life by means of cryptic but ... Read More »

October 24, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Brief History of Oversharing: One Ginger’s Anthology of Humiliation

By Shawn Hitchins

Shawn Hitchins dedicates his debut collection of essays to two people: “Harrison Ford, for making me gay,” and “my father, for making me a comedian.” That salty-sweet-salty combination is Hitchins’s go-to mode in A Brief ... Read More »

October 17, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Louis Undercover

By Fanny Britt; Isabelle Arsenault (ill.); Christelle Morelli (trans.); Susan Ouriou (trans.)

Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault follow up their Governor General’s Literary Award–winning Jane, the Fox and Me with a second graphic novel collaboration of equal acuity. The titular protagonist of Louis Uncover is a perceptive ... Read More »

October 17, 2017 | Filed under: Graphica, Kids’ Books

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