The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

Faced with a frustrated 16-year-old son having increasing problems at school, Governor General’s Award-winning novelist and broadcaster David Gilmour made a decision that no parenting manual is likely to recommend: he allowed his son, Jesse, ... Read More »

October 9, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

By Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes EverythingDon Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams; $32.50 cloth 978-1-59184-138-8, Portfolio/Penguin, Jan. Wikinomics is a thoroughly researched survey of 21st-century digital success stories that makes a compelling case for the transformative power ... Read More »

October 4, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Coureurs de Bois

By Bruce MacDonald

The sensibility of Bruce MacDonald the rookie novelist bears a striking resemblance to that of his namesake, Bruce McDonald the veteran filmmaker. Both have a well-tuned ear for quirky vignettes of edgy, urban Canadian life ... Read More »

October 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Door

By Margaret Atwood

After publishing more than 40 books over a writing career that spans more than four decades, Margaret Atwood must be exhausted. In The Door, her first new collection of poems since 1995’s Morning in the ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power

By Ross King

In the latest edition of the Eminent Lives Series, Canadian-born Ross King, author of last year’s The Judgment of Paris, tells the life story of Renaissance political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli.King’s adherence to a linear timeline ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

By Allan Antliff

The last time anarchy seized the cultural moment was in the late 1970s, with a musical revolution called “punk rock.” Since then, it’s been fairly quiet on the Western front (artistically speaking, that is). Anarchy ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

American Power: Potential and Limits in the 21st Century

By Rudyard Griffiths and Patrick Luciani, eds.

American Power gathers together seven transcribed “talks” from the first two seasons of the invitation-only Grano Speakers Series, held in an upscale Toronto restaurant over the past few years. The list of speakers is extraordinary ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Where War Lives

By Paul Watson

Author and former Toronto Star photo journalist Paul Watson inadvertently caught the world’s attention in October 1993, with his infamous photograph of the corpse of an American helicopter crew member being dragged through a dusty ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness

By Jeff Warren

Call it a bad trip. This not-so-fantastic voyage through the nuances of human consciousness is at once annoyingly personal and frustratingly complex. Author Jeff Warren writes with a light, funny, and accessible touch, but the ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq

By Gwynne Dyer

Books attempting to explain “what went wrong” in Iraq (to borrow the title of a canonical neo-conservative text on the Middle East) are getting to be very thick on the ground. Indeed, The Mess They ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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