Rumours of Glory

Story goes that back in the early 1980s a reporter asked Eddie Van Halen what it felt like to be the best guitar player in the world. “I don’t know,” Van Halen quipped. “Ask Bruce ... Read More »

December 22, 2014 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

★ Unnatural Selections

By Wallace Edwards

Hold onto your hat, Mr. Darwin, there are several new species in town – and their origins are curious. A fusion of tortoise and giraffe results in a Toraffe. Mix a whale with an elephant ... Read More »

December 22, 2014 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Future and Why We Should Avoid It: Killer Robots, the Apocalypse and Other Topics of Mild Concern

By Scott Feschuk

Scott Feschuk is an extremely funny guy, which is a good thing given his abundant presence on Canadian newsstands. Both as a political speechwriter and a humour columnist, he has written for a variety of ... Read More »

December 22, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

kissing keeps us afloat

By Laurie MacFayden

Following 2010’s White Shirt, kissing keeps us afloat (the persistent lower case is a trademark this time around) is Laurie MacFayden’s second collection of poems. After a long career as a sports writer, the Edmonton-based ... Read More »

December 19, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Savour

By Jackie Bateman

In her new novel, Vancouver author Jackie Bateman – who lived in Edinburgh and London before relocating to the West Coast – brings a unique and unsettling perspective to the otherwise hoary trope of the ... Read More »

December 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Girl Before, the Girl After

By Louis-Philippe Hébert; Jonathan Kaplansky trans.

The perils of romantic preoccupation inform The Girl Before, the Girl After, the translation of Quebec poet and novelist Louis-Philippe Hébert’s 2012 novella, Celle d’avant et celle d’après. With its unconventional structure and evocative sexual ... Read More »

December 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Paths of Desire

By Emmanuel Kattan; Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo trans.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict sits at the heart of Montreal-born novelist Emmanuel Kattan’s latest offering in translation. While Kattan frames his story as a genre mystery, the larger thematic ties to the Middle East crisis lend ... Read More »

December 18, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Barker

By Wayne Tefs

The latest and, unfortunately, final novel by Winnipeg author Wayne Tefs (who died of cancer in September), is a mesmerizing tale of self-discovery about Harlan, an unusual teenaged boy living on a hardscrabble Saskatchewan farm ... Read More »

December 15, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

By Emma Hooper

Debut novelist Emma Hooper provides a carefully calibrated setting, but not all the elements in this book come through so vibrantly, writes Dory Cerny Early one morning, 82-year-old Etta Kinnick puts on her boots, fills ... Read More »

December 11, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, History

★ She of the Mountains

By Vivek Shraya; Raymond Biesinger (illus.)

In She of the Mountains, Lambda Literary Award finalist Vivek Shraya seamlessly blends a lyrical interpretation of Hindu mythology with a contemporary coming-of-age tale. Using an intimate memoir style, Shraya tells the story of a ... Read More »

December 8, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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