The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

Daniel J. Levitin, professor of psychology and behavioural neuroscience at McGill University and author of the bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs, is clearly in tune with the ... Read More »

August 14, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Between

By Angie Abdou

Angie Abdou’s third novel is primarily concerned with the tension between two disperate cultural perspectives, and the nature of female identity it illuminates. Vero is a well-drawn portrait of a harried wife and unhinged mother: ... Read More »

August 11, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tell

By Frances Itani

It has been more than 10 years since Frances Itani found “overnight success” with her novel Deafening, after publishing several volumes of poetry and short stories over the course of the previous three decades. The ... Read More »

July 31, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The World Before Us

By Aislinn Hunter

"Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future, / And time future contained in time past,” wrote T.S. Eliot in “Burnt Norton.” Aislinn Hunter’s intricately composed and gripping sophomore novel ... Read More »

July 28, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Interference

By Michelle Berry

In a season of manicured lawns, backyard BBQs, and the comforting illusion of middle-class normalcy, Michelle Berry’s uncanny fifth novel reminds us that even the most seemingly ordinary neighbourhoods may be anything but. Beginning in ... Read More »

July 24, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Irregular Verbs

By Matthew Johnson

In her introduction to Matthew Johnson’s new collection of short stories, Helen Marshall refers to the “perfect language” writers dream of: “Here is a writer who … can make something new,” Marshall says of Johnson. ... Read More »

July 21, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Child of a Hidden Sea

By A.M. Dellamonica

Even by the action-oriented standards of the fantasy genre, A.M. Dellamonica’s new novel begins with a bang. Or, rather, a splash. Sophie Hansa is searching for her birth mother when she intervenes in a fight ... Read More »

July 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Sweet Affliction

By Anna Leventhal

The 15 stories that make up Journey Prize nominee Anna Leventhal’s debut collection, set in contemporary and recent-past Montreal, are about people who stumble and struggle and don’t always do the right thing. Most of ... Read More »

July 14, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Mating for Life

By Marissa Stapley

In her debut novel, Toronto’s Marissa Stapley challenges entrenched ideas of what it means to be a wife and mother, and explores how modern women often struggle to maintain their own identities in the face ... Read More »

July 10, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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