Saltwater Joys

If you hang out with Newfoundlanders for any length of time, you’re bound to be regaled with stories and songs. It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that these two books by Newfoundland authors contain both stories ... Read More »

January 2, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Miss Mousie’s Blind Date

By Tim Beiser; Rachel Berman, illus.

“Spring is such a funny thing,” muses author Tim Beiser in the opening lines of this delightfully brisk ode to seasonal romance among the woodland set. Miss Mousie has stopped in at the local deli, ... Read More »

January 2, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Painted Girls

By Cathy Marie Buchanan

Reminiscent of Tracy Chevalier’s novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, Cathy Marie Buchanan’s second novel tells the fascinating story of the young 19th-century Parisian ballerina who posed for Edgar Degas’ famous sculpture Little Dancer, Aged ... Read More »

December 17, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Words to Live By

By William Whitehead

There’s a one-man show – and, possibly, a standup routine – dying to leap out of the pages of Words to Live By, the amusing memoir by William Whitehead – actor, documentary writer, and, by ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Nation Worth Ranting About

By Rick Mercer

In the latest issue of the recently reanimated magazine The Baffler, Steve Almond takes aim at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for, among other things, being “parasites of the dysfunction they mock” and “remaining careful ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Reference

America, but Better: The Canada Party Manifesto

By Chris Cannon and Brian Calvert

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Reference

Comics Versus Art

By Bart Beaty

In the not-so-distant past, the humble comic book found itself elevated to its own distinct category in bookstores: the graphic novel. However, as University of Calgary professor Bart Beaty points out, this distinction privileges the ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Juan de Fuca’s Strait: Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams

By Barry Gough

Much has been written about the discovery of the Northwest Passage, especially the explorers who travelled Canada’s North, often with brutal consequences. Less well known are the men who sought a path from the Atlantic ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: History

Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk

By Sam Sutherland

In the introduction to Sam Sutherland’s Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk, the author eruditely sets out the far-reaching effects of the first wave of punk in Canada, and – in appropriately irreverent fashion ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Walls: Travels Along the Barricades

By Marcello Di Cintio

Ursula K. Le Guin begins her seminal novel The Dispossessed with a characteristically simple yet profound observation about a wall: “Like all walls it was ambiguous and two-faced. What was inside it and what was ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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