Sitcom

David McGimpsey is a kind of Canadian pop-poetry hero. While his previous collections have been well received, they have also been subject to criticism questioning the relevance of pop-culture verse. Sitcom, McGimpsey’s latest collection, is ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Wonderfull

By William Neil Scott

Wonderfull is the kind of novel that gives magic realism a bad name. Oswald Brodie, the narrator, begins by exhorting readers to flick their lights on and off if we hear him, and then goes ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Twice Born

By Pauline Gedge

Pauline Gedge’s latest novel of ancient Egypt tells the story of Huy, a young scribe destined for greatness. When Huy is sent from his impoverished town to study with the sons of nobles at the ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lost Highway

By David Adams Richards

David Adams Richards is a unique writer in Canada, one who evolved from purely language-driven fiction (1976’s Blood Ties being the best example) to work that has traded linguistic effect for moral depth and for ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Koroshio: The Blood of Foxes

By Terry Watada

Murder, sexual intrigue, and broken dreams combine to create an intense depiction of Vancouver’s Second World War-era Japanese-Canadian community. The novel opens in 1940 with a clandestine meeting between the two main characters – Etsuji ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wind Tails

By Anne DeGrace

Anne DeGrace, author of 2005’s Treading Water, sets her new novel during a single day in 1977 in a remote diner in a B.C. mountain pass. The story is primarily about Jo, a troubled teen ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Be Good

By Stacey May Fowles

The final chapter of Be Good, the debut novel by Toronto writer Stacey May Fowles, begins, “Everyone is posing again.” It’s a fitting description of the book itself, which is deeply concerned with questions of ... Read More »

December 10, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto

By Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt, eds.

Most of GreenTOpia, the third installment in Coach House’s “TOpia” series, is a lot of fun to read. This collection of essays and lists of resources could easily have been pretty boring and ended up ... Read More »

December 3, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar

By Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang

Canada is at war. Even now, after the deaths of more than 70 Canadian soldiers on the roads and battlefields of Afghanistan, that fact still startles. How did this come to pass? Why are we ... Read More »

November 26, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

boYs

By Kathleen Winter

Newfoundland author Kathleen Winter’s debut collection is as motley and intermittently compelling as the characters who inhabit her stories. In these 24 short narratives, Winter presents crowds of people, allows them to wander in and ... Read More »

November 19, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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