The Comeback: How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power and Influence

John Ralston Saul’s meditation on Canada’s aboriginal communities regaining an authentic political voice proves – among other things – that the line between popular culture and hard-nosed philosophy is not especially blurred. The book presents ... Read More »

November 3, 2014 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Who We Are: Reflections on My Life and Canada

By Elizabeth May

With the Canadian federal election coming next year, it’s no surprise that politicians and pundits are flooding bookstores with new tomes. Into the fray steps Green Party leader Elizabeth May with a volume billed as ... Read More »

October 28, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Search for Heinrich Schlögel

By Martha Baillie

The legend of Rip Van Winkle looms in the background of Martha Baillie’s surrealist new novel. Our titular protagonist is a 20-year-old German who travels to Canada’s high north in the summer of 1980. While ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Some Extremely Boring Drives

By Marguerite Pigeon

Many of the characters who inhabit B.C. writer Marguerite Pigeon’s first short-story collection live at the edges and extremes, set adrift in some way from their homes and travelling toward the unknown. Themes of escape, ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What I Want to Tell Goes Like This

By Matt Rader

Matt Rader is an acclaimed writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction whose work has appeared in numerous journals. He’s been nominated for the Journey Prize and two Pushcart Prizes, and his story “All This Was ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Beginning with the Mirror: Ten Stories about Love, Desire, and Moving Between Worlds

By Peter Dubé

Montreal author Peter Dubé’s new short-story collection affirms his place at the forefront of gay surrealist fiction. Dubé, who edited the queer men’s surrealist anthology Madder Love, confidently blends the strange, fantastical, and occult into ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Gifts for the One Who Comes After

By Helen Marshall

Following her 2012 debut collection, Hair Side, Flesh Side (which won her a British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer), Helen Marshall returns with 17 disquieting excursions into dark and darkly funny places. In the dimly ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead

By Michael Winter

In his first foray into non-fiction, novelist Michael Winter (This All Happened, Minister Without Portfolio) has written a love letter to the soldiers who fought for the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War. ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: History

Bunny and Shark

By Alisha Piercy

A Montreal-based writer and artist, Alisha Piercy has described the thematic preoccupation of her oeuvre as “the tension between exile and freedom as it plays out in a diversity of islanded experiences.” Her debut novel ... Read More »

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Toronto: Biography of a City

By Allan Levine

The subtitle of Allan Levine’s ambitious history of Toronto may seem as stolid as the city’s British founding families, but it doesn’t take long for the reader to realize how carefully chosen it is. Levine, ... Read More »

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: History

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