Mean Boy

It’s not often that one hears the term “great minor novel” bandied about in a Canadian literary context, possibly because the scene in this country is still relatively young and close-knit. There isn’t the room ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stalking the Holy: The Pursuit of Saint Making

By Michael W. Higgins

Theologian Michael Higgins’ treatise on the making of saints is a self-described personal inquiry into the process, players, and politics inherent in the canonization of Christianity’s heroes. These “action figures of Christendom” have long fascinated ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing

By Donna Bailey Nurse

“Literature has been the means through which I have learned to understand who I am and who I might be,” writes Donna Bailey Nurse in the introduction to this, the first major anthology of black ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

High: Confessions of a Pot Smuggler

By Brian O’Dea

Prologues are often melodramatic, affected, and to be skipped. Not this one. The prologue to Brian O’Dea’s memoir of life as a pot smuggler is heartbreaking, introducing the tale of how a nice kid from ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Devil’s Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit

By Taras Grescoe

“As soon as I encountered the words absinthe, hashish and opium as a teenager, I was dreaming up ways to get my hands on them,” confesses Taras Grescoe in the preface to The Devil’s Picnic. ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Reference

The Bloody Red Hand: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland

By Derek Lundy

It’s not surprising that Derek Lundy chose to start his new book with a scene set at sea – the Salt Spring Island writer has done well with his previous, nautically themed books. The opening ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: History

The Red Power Murders

By Thomas King

With The Red Power Murders, Thomas King (aka Hartley Goodweather) returns with a new DreadfulWater mystery. Having abandoned the façade of pseudonymity that accompanied DreadfulWater Shows Up, the first novel featuring Cherokee freelance investigator Thumps ... Read More »

April 24, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Dolphins at Sainte-Marie

By Sandra Sabatini

In the title story of this collection a child valiantly sells chocolate bars for her Grade 6 trip, only to learn it’s to the wrong theme park – she thought the teacher said Marineland, not ... Read More »

April 17, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The End of Food: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Food Supply – And What You Can Do About It

By Thomas F. Pawlick

An unsavoury encounter with a tomato that shared the culinary attributes of a hockey puck led journalist and sometime farmer Thomas Pawlick on a journey to discover what was happening to the quality, taste, and ... Read More »

April 10, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Tent

By Margaret Atwood

Some of the earliest examples of women’s writing can be found in Renaissance “miscellanies,” or notebooks in which women copied, composed, and emended poems and brief bits of fiction for their own pleasure and edification. ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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