Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother

Sean Trinder’s The Guy Who Pumps Your Gas Hates You and Hollie Adams’s Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother both focus their attention on that (hopefully brief) period after adolescence but before finding a foothold ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Breathing Lessons

By Andy Sinclair

The title of Andy Sinclair’s debut novel refers to the experience of accepting air from another person, whether through artificial respiration or by sharing a joint. A special type of breathing is involved, but once ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

#IdleNoMore and the Remaking of Canada

By Ken Coates

Every few years, Canadian complacency is punctured by potent wake-up calls about unresolved indigenous rights issues, from the tense standoff over expansion of a Quebec golf course on traditional burial grounds at Oka to the ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call

By Arthur Manuel; Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson

The seminal political scientist Benedict Anderson coined the term “imagined communities” to describe modern nations – political entities so large and diffuse that they are held together not by direct personal ties but by shared ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

The Mystics of Mile End

By Sigal Samuel

Listening for patterns in the chaos” is the overarching theme of Sigal Samuel’s debut novel, a four-pronged narrative about the mysteries of the universe set in the titular Jewish Montreal neighbourhood. With a style reminiscent ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia – The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

By Dean Jobb

Leo Koretz was the Bernie Madoff of the 1920s. The son of immigrants from Central Europe, Koretz was a Chicago lawyer turned financier who amassed a considerable fortune by convincing insufficiently diligent investors to bankroll ... Read More »

May 19, 2015 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography

The Carbon Bubble: What Happens to Us When It Bursts

By Jeff Rubin

When Stephen Harper went all-in on his gamble that Canada could become a world-leading oil producer, he set the country up for international environmental pariah status. He also, argues Jeff Rubin, made a dramatic and ... Read More »

May 14, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Boring Girls

By Sara Taylor

The literary debut by Toronto singer-songwriter Sara Taylor (who fronts the band the Birthday Massacre) follows a teenage girl’s struggle to fit in, her discovery of metal music, and involvement in a band – oh, ... Read More »

May 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gracelessland

By Adam Lindsay Honsinger

Set in 1978, the debut novel from Toronto writer and teacher Adam Lindsay Honsinger begins with perhaps the most poorly planned caper in recent literary memory. Armed with only bolt cutters, bananas, and a typewriter, ... Read More »

May 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dogs and Underdogs: Finding Happiness at Both Ends of the Leash

By Elizabeth Abbott

Admirers of Toronto writer Elizabeth Abbott’s non-fiction may be surprised by her new book. While her previous titles – including A History of Marriage and Sugar: A Bittersweet History – were characterized by academic exuberance ... Read More »

May 7, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

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