Authors have many good reasons for choosing to set their tales of teen angst in space or the distant past, or in worlds full of vampires, extraterrestrials, or sentient robots. One reason YA writers prefer ... Read More »
July 29, 2013
What defines motherhood? Does it have to do simply with giving birth, or is it more closely connected to the matter of raising a child? In her fourth novel for adults, Tish Cohen tackles weighty ... Read More »
July 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
For several years, Lynn Coady – whose 2011 novel, The Antagonist, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize – hosted a “group therapy” advice column for The Globe and Mail, an experience that may ... Read More »
July 15, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Confederation may be one of the best-known events in Canadian history, with countless volumes devoted to the subject. Despite this, historian John Boyko manages to find a fresh lens through which to examine this foundational ... Read More »
July 8, 2013
Confederation may be one of the best-known events in Canadian history, with countless volumes devoted to the subject. Despite this, historian John Boyko manages to find a fresh lens through which to examine this foundational ... Read More »
July 8, 2013 | Filed under: History
Lauren B. Davis’s fourth novel tells the story of Colleen Kerrigan, a relatively unremarkable middle-aged secretary who is single and childless. Colleen is also a full-blown alcoholic. The novel takes place over a single day. ... Read More »
July 4, 2013
Here’s how David Mason, Toronto’s leading antiquarian book dealer, explains the title of this memoir: in the late 1950s, aged 19, he left Canada, eventually landing in Spain, where he found work as a bookbinder. ... Read More »
July 2, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
There are many ways language can be broken down. Some poets choose to slice and slaughter, neatly debriding and deboning, turning metaphors into meat. Others prefer to dissolve aggressively, as if by acid, or gradually, ... Read More »
June 24, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry
Scene: two children stand in the late afternoon sunlight comparing shadows. The little brother says, “Look! I’m long!” His older sister replies, “I’m longer.” Siblings give us our first experience of the tyranny of comparison. ... Read More »
June 19, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books
At the outset of the American Revolution, the British governor of Virginia issued a proclamation declaring that slaves of American rebels would be freed if they joined royal forces attempting to restore order. This was ... Read More »
June 18, 2013 | Filed under: History
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