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Queer View Mirror 2: Lesbian and Gay Short Short Fiction

By James C. Johnstone,Karen X. Tulchinsky, eds.

It is unlikely 100 fine short stories are written per year. The form requires distillation and hard work, the exclusion of the irrelevant and microscopic enhancements of what’s crucial. Queer View Mirror 2 is a ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Anthologies

Once upon an Elephant

By Ashok Mathur

The title brings to mind a fairy tale, but the author is being unnecessarily modest, as if trying to cram a mighty, incandescent genie into a very ordinary bottle. Once Upon an Elephant is certainly ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Polaroids from the Dead

By Douglas Coupland

The “Polaroids” that give Douglas Coupland’s new collection of essays and short stories its title are a series of 10 vignettes, each focusing on the experiences of different people attending a Grateful Dead concert in ... Read More »

October 10, 2007 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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

By David Gilmour

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