Hard Ass

New Brunswick poet Sharon McCartney’s fifth collection uses weightlifting as its central metaphor to explore both interiority and relationships. McCartney’s poetic voice is direct, confessional, and, at times, philosophical, examining the nuances of family dynamics, ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry

By Mark Callanan and James Langer, eds.

Newfoundland is made of poetry. Its hard-luck weather, resilient humanity, and far-flung geography moved the pen of E.J. Pratt, whom the London Times called “by far the most considerable of Canadian writers of [the 20th] ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Flight of the Eagle: A Strategic History of the United States

By Conrad Black

At more than 700 pages, Flight of the Eagle, the latest work of history from Conrad Black, is both bloated and seriously blinkered, especially when recounting the events of recent decades. It offers few new ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: History

The Trial of Pope Benedict: Joseph Ratzinger and the Vatican’s Assault on Reason, Compassion, and Human Dignity

By Daniel Gawthrop

In the same spirit of j’accuse journalism as Christopher Hitchens’ The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Daniel Gawthrop takes on the legacy of the recently retired Pope Benedict XVI (né Joseph Ratzinger) in an impassioned broadside ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School

By Bev Sellars

As Canadians slowly begin to acknowledge the atrocities of the government-funded, church-operated Indian residential schools of the 19th and 20th centuries, Bev Sellars, Chief of the Xat’sull First Nation in Williams Lake, B.C., feels she ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: History

“And Neither Have I Wings to Fly”: Labelled and Locked Up in Canada’s Oldest Institution

By Thelma Wheatley

Toronto author Thelma Wheatley’s 2004 memoir, My Sad Is All Gone, describes the experience of raising her autistic son, including the challenges of finding him appropriate education and medical treatment. And Neither Have I Wings ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved

By Joey Comeau

Horror is a tricky genre. Too often, authors working in this mode resort to shocks and unexpected twists for their scares. Truly effective horror, by contrast, is unsettling. It has a human element that relies ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Drowned Man

By David Whellams

One thing often overlooked in contemporary crime fiction is just how tedious police investigations actually are: real crimes are generally solved only after weeks or months of drudgery and boredom, not in the high-stakes, ticking-clock ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ballistics

By D.W. Wilson; D.W. Wilson

D.W. Wilson’s first book, 2011’s Once You Break a Knuckle, was a collection of brutal tales about guilt-ridden, impulsive fathers and sons with a taste for cheap beer and tendency toward messy violence, mostly set ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Restoration Artist

By Lewis DeSoto

Idealized and melancholic pastoral landscapes devoid of people. These are the paintings that Leo Millar, the protagonist of author Lewis DeSoto’s The Restoration Artist has made a good living from. Only after losing his beloved ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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