Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada

For many readers, Donald Gutstein’s new book will only serve to fuel fear and loathing for the current prime minister and the way he governs. It describes, in great detail, Harper’s links to the philosophies ... Read More »

December 4, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Grey Eyes

By Frank Christopher Busch

In Grey Eyes, Frank Christopher Busch takes the reader back to a pre-contact aboriginal society. At the start of the novel, a grey-eyed child known as Little Grey Bear Boy is born; his birth changes ... Read More »

December 1, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, History

★ Live from the Afrikan Resistance!

By El Jones

What is spoken-word poetry? For El Jones, Halifax’s poet laureate, the medium is expansive: it is “hip hop, theatre, song, poetry, movement,” it is a liberation tool, and an “Afrikan art form.” In the introduction ... Read More »

November 27, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Celia’s Song

By Lee Maracle

Generations of First Nations in Canada have suffered a history of unthinkable trauma and hardship in the aftermath of European settlement, prompting ongoing attempts at healing and reconciliation. Lee Maracle’s new novel, a work of ... Read More »

November 24, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something

By Paul Vermeersch

Paul Vermeersch’s new collection is the latest example of a turn to conceptual poetics in Canada (ongoing since the success of Christian Bök’s Eunoia in 2000), which coincides with the persistent notoriety of Kenneth Goldsmith’s ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

A Migrant Heart

By Danis Sampson

In A Migrant Heart, a contemplative book about one man’s faith in literature’s ability to anchor a life of shifting attachments and estrangements, Denis Sampson justifies the practice of memoir writing in revealing and, ultimately, ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Sudden Sun

By Trudy J. Morgan-Cole

Choice and circumstance have great power to alter the direction of a life; so too does history. The late-19th and early 20th centuries were a period of tumult and social change: women’s suffrage was sweeping ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

None So Blind

By Barbara Fradkin

With the 10th novel in her Inspector Green mystery series, Ottawa writer Barbara Fradkin demonstrates just why two of the earlier instalments have been awarded the Arthur Ellis from the Crime Writers of Canada. None ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age

By Cory Doctorow

Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free is a book that’s very clear about what it is and what it isn’t. What it is: a toolkit for anyone with a stake in making a “creative wage” ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

By Barbara Taylor

In The Last Asylum, Barbara Taylor, a Canadian historian living in England, offers a searing account of her own journey through mental illness – or “madness,” as she frequently calls it. The book combines history ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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