Girls Fall Down

The contemporary urban experience is not a subject that dominates Canadian fiction. A quick scan of the bestseller lists and awards shortlists of recent years reveals the firm dominance of novels set in the past, ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flirt: The Interviews

By Lorna Jackson

The conceit behind Lorna Jackson’s slim new volume of fiction is a series of phony encounters between an unnamed middle-aged female interviewer and eight celebrities culled mainly from the worlds of hockey and literature, including ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fatal Tide: When the Race of a Lifetime Goes Wrong

By David Leach

The title of this quick read by journalist David Leach implies that Mother Nature simply behaved impetuously in the 2002 kayaking death of New Brunswicker René Arsenault. However, many people in the book believe that ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Dangerous World: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival

By Marq de Villiers

In the wake of the 2004 Asian tsunami and 2005’s Hurricane Katrina comes Dangerous World, veteran author and journalist Marq de Villiers’ popular-science overview of Earth’s extreme events – and how they affect humanity. Most of ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Cult of Quick Repair

By Dede Crane

Get close enough to the average story and the blood stains are revealed as only raspberry jam, the ghouls merely shuddering curtains. In The Cult of Quick Repair, however, the wounds that Dede Crane’s characters ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Truth About Canada: Some Important, Some Astonishing, and Some Truly Appalling Things All Canadians Should Know About Their Country

By Mel Hurtig

With very good reason, many Canadians have been heavily critical of the U.S. and, in particular, its hapless president over the last seven years. After reading Mel Hurtig’s new book, The Truth About Canada, Canadians ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: History

Tilted: The Trial of Conrad Black

By Steven Skurka

In Tilted, an insightful play-by-play account of one of the more notorious corporate trials of the past few decades, Toronto lawyer and legal pundit Steven Skurka argues that Conrad Black got a raw deal, thus ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Sexual Paradox: Extreme Men, Gifted Women and the Real Gender Gap

By Susan Pinker

While psychologist Susan Pinker’s examination of gender in the workplace should arouse a great deal of interest both inside and outside academia, one thing it oughtn’t to do is stir up controversy. However, as the ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect

By Daphne Bramham

B.C.’s secluded sect of polygamists is a sore spot that many a lawmaker has poked at over the years. But as Daphne Bramham shows in The Secret Lives of Saints, none have succeeded in healing ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: History

Revolver

By Kevin Connolly

Randomness is central to Toronto writer Kevin Connolly’s poetics. In his previous collection, the Trillium-winning drift, the poems were arranged alphabetically, as if to say that order is irrelevant. In Revolver’s table of contents, titles ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

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