The Salt Roads

The Salt Roads, the new novel from Toronto writer Nalo Hopkinson, is a sprawling, ambitious exploration of mythology and history, race and gender. Hopkinson, who is widely respected for her fantasy writing, casts as her ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A House by the Sea

By Sikeena Karmali

Zahra, the narrator of Sikeena Karmali’s A House by the Sea, wants nothing more than “to take my home off my back and lay it down, here, lay my burden down and sort through it.” ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson

By David Silcox

Coffee-table books dedicated to the works of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven have been something of a Canadian cottage industry for decades now. It’s hard to imagine at this point, but as David ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

All My Friends Are Superheroes

By Andrew Kaufman

As they appear in Andrew Kaufman’s debut novel, Toronto’s superheroes are a rather sad-sack bunch. There’s The Couch Surfer, with the mysterious power to survive on nothing but handfuls of breakfast cereal and slices of ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fiction for Lovers: Freshly Cut Tales of Flesh, Fear, Larvae and Love

By Tony Burgess

“Contaminated but beautiful in the television light” is how the narrator of “Bug Day,” the penultimate story in Tony Burgess’s fourth book, describes the face of his lover. He could just as easily be describing ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Winter Gardeners

By Dennis Denisoff

Giggy Andrewes is the eccentric matriarch of the Winter Garden, an estate where she boards her nephew Jem, his friend Cora, Jem’s lover Rob, and a dog named Chappy. Along with an odd cast of ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business

By Madelaine Drohan

In a story unlikely to endear her to editors of the business pages, journalist Madelaine Drohan tackles the growing corporate use of mercenary armies to protect their business interests. Making a Killing focuses on Africa, ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Last Cowboy

By Lee Gowan

The word “cowboy” comes freighted with so many different meanings. For immigrants from Europe, Asia, or Africa, it can be romance personified, a somewhat updated version of the medieval knight, out riding the range, communing ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Naked Truth: The Untold Story of Sex in Canada

By Chris Gudgeon

No topic elicits a broader array of responses than that of sex. From prim-lipped silence to raunchy histrionics, perhaps no nation embodies these differing attitudes more than Canada. Or at least that is the tack ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Weapons of Mass Distraction: Soft Power and American Empire

By Matthew Fraser

Weapons of Mass Distraction ends with the words “yes, things really do go better with Coke.” That sentence sums up both the thesis and the moral of National Post editor Matthew Fraser’s most recent book. ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History

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