★ The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers

The question of whether identity politics have a role to play in art or literature is a contentious one, inspiring strong sentiment on both sides of the argument. Montreal-based journalist Matthew Hays poses that question, ... Read More »

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

Unlucky to the End: The Story of Janise Marie Gamble

By Richard W. Pound

Dick Pound is probably best known to Canadians as the former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee and later the crusading head of the World Anti-Doping Agency. He also finds the time to serve as ... Read More »

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

The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family

By Leilah Nadir

The Orange Trees of Baghdad is a found memoir, a record of partial memories and secondhand observations of world events. In it, Canadian-Iraqi author and journalist Leilah Nadir strikes out to learn about the lives ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Promise of Hope: The Astonishing True Story of a Woman Afflicted with Bipolar Disorder and the Miraculous Treatment That Cured Her

By Autumn Stringam

In 1996, an unlikely pair from northern Alberta – Tony Stephan, an engineer with a bipolar wife and two severely bipolar children, and David Hardy, an animal feed salesman – took a nutritional supplement for ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Other Men’s Sons

By Michael Rowe

Careful study of the lives of others leads to a greater understanding of the self, a fact amply demonstrated by Other Men’s Sons, a collection of essays by Toronto-based author and editor Michael Rowe that ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Big White Knuckles

By Brian Tucker

As one might expect from the telegraphing-its-punches title, Big White Knuckles is another entry in the hardscrabble-realist tradition of Maritime writing. Dagan Cadden comes of age in an impoverished and often violent Cape Breton. His ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Book of Beasts

By Bernice Friesen

Show, don’t tell. It’s a hackneyed but still-relevant adage that’s been bandied about in creative writing classes for years. Unfortunately, this first novel from Saskatchewan author Bernice Friesen fails to heed the lesson.The Book of ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No Time for Goodbye

By Linwood Barclay

The central event at the core of author and Toronto Star columnist Linwood Barclay’s latest fast-paced thriller is the unexplained, overnight disappearance of a teenage girl’s family.Barclay’s tale really begins 25 years later, with the ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I, Tania

By Brian Joseph Davis

Brian Joseph Davis’s I, Tania is an experimental novella, one that plays with ideas of celebrity and pop culture in a grab-bag approach that very nearly proves self-defeating.The book is presented as the autobiography of ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Writing Circle

By Rozena Maart

The Writing Circle is a welcome follow-up to Rozena Maart’s enchanting first novel, Rosa’s District 6. Her second novel is centred around five women who form a weekly writing circle in a suburban South African ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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