The Theory of Light at Midnight

In an essay called “The Chattering Mind,” collected in his 2015 book, Where I’m Reading From, novelist and critic Tim Parks isolates a “monstrously heightened consciousness” as “the main protagonist” of 20th-century fiction. The “full-blown ... Read More »

August 27, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada’s Lost Promise and One Girl’s Dream

By Charlie Angus

The new book by NDP MP Charlie Angus is actually worthy of all of the positive clichés of non-fiction book reviewing. The subject matter is important. The story is at times inspiring, at other times ... Read More »

August 24, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Wild Rose

By Sharon Butala

Sharon Butala’s seventh novel – and first work of fiction since the 2002 story collection Real Life – is the kind of near-perfect book that proclaims the full expression of a writer’s artistry and sensibility. ... Read More »

August 20, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stephen Harper

By John Ibbitson

A series of curious adjectives pepper the first half of John Ibbitson's biography of Stephen Harper. “Calm.” “Measured.” “Reasonable.” These are not, safe to say, words that are commonly applied to Canada’s 22nd prime minister, ... Read More »

August 17, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

’Membering

By Austin Clarke

The July 20 issue of Maclean’s magazine features a cover article titled “Get Serious, America,” about the persistent, and apparently intractable, problems with race relations in the U.S. Written by Jonathon Gatehouse, the piece critiques ... Read More »

August 13, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life

By Colin Ellard

As anyone who grew up in a generic North American suburb knows all too well, it is possible to hate a place with a passion. So, too, is it possible to love a neighbourhood or ... Read More »

August 10, 2015 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War

By Jessica Dee Humphreys; Michel Chikwanine; Claudia Dávila (illus.)

In 1993, five-year-old Michel Chikwanine was kidnapped by members of a rebel militia while he and some other boys were playing in their village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The boys were drugged, subjected ... Read More »

August 5, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Former Slaves Took on the World

By Kathy Lowinger

The Fisk Jubilee Singers are a world-renowned African-American choir from Nashville, Tennessee. In Give Me Wings, former Tundra Books publisher (and anthropologist) Kathy Lowinger explores the origins of this group, which arose to face the ... Read More »

August 5, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Say You Will

By Eric Walters

In the latest YA novel from veteran author Eric Walters (who has written more than 90 books over the course of two decades), readers are introduced to Sam, a Grade 11 boy with an exceptionally ... Read More »

August 5, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Myles and the Monster Outside (Weird Stories Gone Wrong, Book 2)

By Philippa Dowding

Writing horror stories for kids is a bit of a tightrope walk. Not enough spookiness and readers will be bored, too much and they might have nightmares. It’s a fine balance, one that Philippa Dowding ... Read More »

August 5, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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