Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell

In her acknowledgments, Katherine Monk thanks “every writer who’s ever written anything about Joni Mitchell,” without whom “this book would not have been possible.” She means this literally. Her new biography of the iconic Canadian ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Karsh: Beyond the Camera

By Yousuf Karsh; David Travis, ed.

Many wonderful books have been published about the iconic portraits of famed Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh. The latest is this small-format softcover, thoughtfully compiled by David Travis, former curator of photography at the Art Institute ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude

By Andrew Nikiforuk

Andrew Nikiforuk has written extensively on the oil industry; he won the 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil. With his new book, Nikiforuk adds a robustly researched and ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Until the Night

By Giles Blunt

Giles Blunt, a pivotal figure in the Canadian crime fiction scene, returns with the sixth instalment of his series featuring detective duo John Cardinal and Lise Delorme. Over the course of the previous books, as ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Freak

By Jennifer Hillier

In Jennifer Hillier’s debut thriller, Creep, the Tell Tale Heart Killer abducted and murdered several young Seattle women. Hillier’s tense sophomore effort returns to the setting of the earlier book one year later. High-end escorts ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Beautiful Mystery

By Louise Penny

Cloistered in a remote Northern Quebec monastery, 24 monks of the Gilbertine order, long thought to have vanished altogether, sing glorious Gregorian plainchants and exist happily with minimal contact from the outside world. For hundreds ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rock Reject

By Jim Williams

There is no question that asbestos is dangerous. Jim Williams’ Rock Reject, which won the inaugural Beacon Award for Social Justice Literature, is dedicated to the 100,000 people who die each year from exposure to ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cadillac Couches

By Sophie B. Watson

Admit it: we’ve all had our share of celebrity crushes. In her quirky first novel, set in the late 1990s, author Sophie B. Watson explores the fantasy of meeting a fave celeb through her protagonists, ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Chronic Condition: Why Canada’s Health Care System Needs to Be Dragged into the 21st Century

By Jeffrey Simpson

Canadians routinely claim that no policy issue is more important to them than public health care, yet no one wants to have a frank conversation about the sacrifices necessary to keep it. In an attempt ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Blessed Snarl

By Samuel Thomas Martin

“They fuck you up, your mum and dad,” the poet tells us. This sad fact of life is comprehensively borne out by Samuel Thomas Martin’s debut novel. Set in Newfoundland, it tells the story of ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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