Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail and Why We Believe Them Anyway

That we cannot predict the future with any certainty is not all that shocking a revelation. Nevertheless, Ottawa Citizen columnist Dan Gardner provides an engaging tour through the recent history, science, psychology, and economics of ... Read More »

October 25, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Midway

By David Homel

In his sixth novel, Montreal writer and translator David Homel delves into the relationship between fathers and sons. Ben Allen is at the midway point between his 80-year-old father, Morris, and his teenage son, Tony. ... Read More »

October 18, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Sarah Court

By Craig Davidson

Fredericton-based writer Craig Davidson’s 2006 book The Preserve, written under the pseudonym Patrick Lestewka, was a horror novel set in northern Canada. Under his own name, he published the more literary Rust and Bone in ... Read More »

October 12, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Beauty and Sadness

By André Alexis

People shouldn’t prejudge this brilliant book by novelist and playwright André Alexis on the basis of the long pre-publication excerpt – an indictment of Canadian book reviewing – that appeared last June in The Walrus ... Read More »

October 4, 2010 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Dust City

By Robert Paul Weston

Henry Whelp doesn’t want to take after his father, a convicted murderer, but things aren’t looking good. Serving out a juvenile sentence at the St. Remus Home for Wayward Youth for an act of vandalism ... Read More »

September 27, 2010

★ Light Lifting

By Alexander MacLeod

Light Lifting is one of those rare debuts: a breathtakingly good collection of short fiction that heralds the arrival of a significant new talent. It’s also the sort of book one worries won’t get the ... Read More »

September 20, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Half Brother

By Kenneth Oppel

Part science lesson, part animal rights crusade, part morality tale, part coming of age story, Half Brother is a departure from bestselling author Kenneth Oppel’s better-known fictional worlds of flying ships and bats. All the ... Read More »

September 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

★ Room

By Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue steps outside of her comfort zone with Room, her new novel. The Irish-born novelist, who now makes her home in London, Ontario, is known primarily for her richly detailed historical fiction (such as ... Read More »

September 7, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Kenk: A Graphic Portrait

By Richard Poplak; Nick Marinkovich, illus.

Kenk is a book that merges several mediums, a “hybrid project that simultaneously takes the form of journalistic profile, documentary film, and comic book.” It began life as a film about Igor Kenk, Toronto’s internationally ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Graphica

For and Against

By Sharon McCartney

The title of Sharon McCartney’s latest collection is indicative of the poet’s ambivalence toward her main subjects – surviving breast cancer, undergoing the protracted illness and death of a sibling, and enduring the even slower ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

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