Down the Drain

By Robert Munsch; Michael Martchenko, illus.

Robert Munsch has done it again. The prolific storyteller’s latest book keeps up the high standard of silliness we’ve come to expect from Canada’s King of KidLit. The familiar formula of repetition, exaggeration, and humour ... Read More »

August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Queen of Paradise’s Garden

By Andy Jones; Darka Erdelji, illus.

Andy Jones, a founder of the comedy troupe CODCO, retells a traditional Newfoundland tale here, just as he did in 2003’s Hackmatack Award-winning Peg Bearskin. The story features elements in common with many good folk ... Read More »

August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Generation A

By Douglas Coupland

Generation A, Douglas Coupland’s 11th novel, is a great bookend to Generation X, the novel that launched his career. The term “Generation A” was in fact coined by Kurt Vonnegut, but Coupland embraces it and ... Read More »

August 24, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bishop’s Man

By Linden MacIntyre

Father Duncan MacAskill is called The Exorcist. Not in the traditional sense, however: at his bishop’s bidding, he drives out devils of a different sort – priests who molest children. He does not banish the ... Read More »

August 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Papercut Heart: A Book of Zines

By Ian Sullivan Cant

Papercut Heart is a short volume containing nine poems, all of them charmingly illustrated by the author. Most of the text is handwritten, and the result is a pleasant little collection that tackles the usual ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Graphica

One

By Serge Patrice Thibodeau; Jo-Anne Elder, trans.

Serge Patrice Thibodeau’s Seul on est won the Governor General’s Award in 2007, an honour which no doubt helped it become one of the few books of contemporary French-Canadian poetry translated into English. Seul on ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

The Exile Book of Poems in Translation: 20 Canadian Poets Take on the World

By Priscila Uppal, ed.

If, as W.H. Auden once asserted, a writer’s only political duty is “to translate the fiction and poetry of other countries so as to make them available to readers in his own,” then, based on ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

East of Berlin

By Hannah Moscovitch

A chronicle of the tragic life of a Nazi war criminal’s son, East of Berlin – the Nazi euphemism for deporting Jews to death camps – raises questions about culpability for crimes against humanity. While ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Ricardo: Meals for Every Occasion

By Ricardo Larrivée

Cooking with beer is often considered the domain of drunken bachelors who, in a flash of inspiration, dump a can of Guinness into their chili pot. Since 2003, however, restaurateur Stephen Beaumont and chef Brian ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Food & Drink