Substance Over Spectacle: Contemporary Canadian Architecture

Contemporary architecture is more in the public eye today than it has been in a generation. Still, between the media’s star obsession and the design field’s global enthusiasms, most Canadians would be hard pressed to ... Read More »

July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Greed, Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and How We Let It Happen

By Wade Rowland

Facing the brutal reality of a mean-spirited corporate downsizing after a long and successful media career, Wade Rowland didn’t just get mad, he got philosophical. What results is a happy conclusion, in that he’s produced ... Read More »

July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Miss Elva

By Stephens Gerard Malone

Born with a limp arm and the gnarled hands of a crone, Elva slinks away her childhood in the rickety Nova Scotia town of Demerett Bridge, captive in the shadow of her beautiful half-sister, Jane. ... Read More »

July 4, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Garden of Venus

By Eva Stachniak

Eva Stachniak’s new novel is raw historical fiction. A retelling and re-imagining of the tumultuous life of Countess Sophie Potocka, it takes an unwavering look at the human body and mind in protracted decline.Garden of ... Read More »

June 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

You Made Me Love You

By Joanna Goodman

Sophomore novelist Joanna Goodman has written an eminently readable piece of women’s fiction about three sisters facing life-altering decisions that feels, in spirit, like a cross between Four Weddings and a Funeral and Hannah and ... Read More »

June 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Asthmatica

By Jon Paul Fiorentino

For much of Asthmatica, Jon Paul Fiorentino is showing off so flamboyantly it’s a wonder that he doesn’t hyperventilate. It is quite a spectacle to behold at first, and the results are often very funny. ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon

By Nicole Brossard, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, trans.

Quebec novelist Nicole Brossard clearly enjoys playing games with her readers. In her last novel, Baroque at Dawn, she had a character who wrote in English named Nicole Brossard, and it was never clear just ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Water, Inc.

By Varda Burstyn

Bourne-like, some thrillers deliver lots of action but very little plausibility – we love the suspense, but never quite believe that we’ll be encountering amnesiac special agents or colourful computer hackers anytime soon. Other thrillers ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Nettle Spinner

By Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

The Nettle Spinner weaves the story of one woman’s fictional journey through the aftermath of sexual violence and an unwanted pregnancy. The title is taken from a fable of a young girl who seeks her ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nelcott Is My Darling

By Golda Fried

Alice is a 19-year-old classic film junkie who’s been sent down the rabbit hole to adulthood via McGill University in Montreal. She’s studying Arts, to her parents’ dismay. She’s shy and has difficulty knowing whom ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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