The Perils of Empire: America and Its Imperial Predecessors

The American empire is waning. A neo-conservative, unilateralist America is stuck in quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan while at home the economy staggers. Increasingly successful challengers abound: Iran, China, the EU, even Venezuela. Will the ... Read More »

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

The New Layman’s Almanac

By Jacob McArthur Mooney

In his debut collection, twentysomething Nova Scotian poet Jacob McArthur Mooney channels the raw and uneasy energy of adolescence. It’s tempting to read the book as autobiography. The poems have all the elements of a ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

Never Sang for Hitler: The Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann

By Michael H. Kater

In the aftermath of the Second World War, many Germans strove to dissasociate themselves from Hitler’s Third Reich. Opera diva Lotte Lehmann vigorously promoted the fact that she, for one, never performed for the Nazis. ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic

By Irene Gammel

Everything seems to be coming up Anne Shirley in this, the centenary of the first publication of Anne of Green Gables. Rather than simply rehashing available material, Ryerson professor and noted literary researcher Irene Gammel ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: History

Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery

By Elizabeth Rollins Epperly

In addition to writing 20 novels, 500 short stories, and 500 poems, Lucy Maud Montgomery was an avid scrapbooker most of her life. She collected fashion illustrations, fabric swatches, newspaper clippings (of marriages, deaths, and ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Carnivore Chic: From Pasture to Plate, a Search for the Perfect Meat

By Susan Bourette

For Taras Grescoe, the decline of the oceans is personally distressing. A self-described “piscavore” (fish eater) for 10 years running, the Montreal-based food and travel writer is nothing if not adventurous: over the course of ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Coventry

By Helen Humphreys

Similar to her 2002 novel, The Lost Garden, Helen Humphreys’ sixth novel is concerned with finding one’s bearings in a world made unrecognizable by war. During the Second World War, on the night of the ... Read More »

August 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Flying Troutmans

By Miriam Toews

The considerable charm of Miriam Toews’ fiction comes, in part, from her ability to create characters in situations of long-term duress with a brilliantly emulsified mix of repression and humour, punctuated by bursts of real ... Read More »

August 15, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sleeping Porch

By Ian Wallace

Ian Wallace, the veteran Canadian-born children’s author and illustrator, begins his latest picture book in an unidentified American town. (Wallace now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, a likely contender.) Young Brando is attempting to catch a ... Read More »

August 5, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Soul of the World: Unlocking the Secrets of Time

By Christopher Dewdney

In Acquainted with the Night, poet and non-fiction writer Christopher Dewdney explored the nighttime realm through the complementary lenses of science and art. Now, in Soul of the World, Dewdney brings this two-pronged approach to ... Read More »

July 31, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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