What We Talk About When We Talk About War

As Canadian bookshelves bulge with triumphal Afghanistan war memoirs, Noah Richler’s new polemic boldly bucks the prevailing trend by raising provocative questions about our country’s military over the past decade. The tensions marking Canada’s occupation ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: History

A Work in Progress

By Brad Cotton

Danny Bayle, the 28-year-old protagonist of Brad Cotton’s debut novel, is a frustrated writer. His first novel, published when he was 24, “earned a unanimous reception from critics in that none of them bothered to ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Goodtime Girl

By Tess Fragoulis

Kivelli Fotiathi is a wealthy, beautiful young woman enjoying the perks of privilege and daydreams of romance in her home city of Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey). But the year is 1922, and her world is ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC

By Richard Stursberg

In 2004, when Richard Stursberg accepted the position as head of CBC’s English-language television services (he took over radio and online responsibilities in 2008), he inherited a once venerable cultural institution in the late stages ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Lola Quartet

By Emily St. John Mandel

The third novel from B.C.-born Emily St. John Mandel, about the way the panicked actions of one terrified young girl resonate a decade later, has aspects of family drama and literary noir. Anna Montgomery, a ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Motherless Child

By Marianne Langner Zeitlin

Motherless Child is the kind of novel that requires an early commitment from readers. Since the plot relies so heavily on dredging up the past, there’s a lot of set-up involved: seemingly disconnected details of ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Bellwether Revivals

By Benjamin Wood

This first novel by Benjamin Wood, former fiction editor of the journal Prism International, is accomplished, atmospheric, and suspenseful – once it builds up some steam, that is. Oscar is a lonely, unfulfilled, working-class personal-care ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Rest Is Silence

By Scott Fotheringham

The Rest Is Silence is a curious hybrid of a novel, a dual-track eco-fantasy with its narrative feet planted in two very different worlds. The main story deals with a young man who has gone ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

One Good Hustle

By Billie Livingston

In her third novel, Vancouver writer Billie Livingston vividly recreates the world of mid-1980s Burnaby, B.C. One Good Hustle follows Samantha (Sammie) Bell, the sharp-tongued 16-year-old daughter of a couple of con artists, through a ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Cloaca

By Andrew Hood

Zoologically speaking, the cloaca is the undifferentiated posterior orifice in birds, reptiles, and amphibians. It serves urinary, digestive, and reproductive functions carried out by specialized structures in other species. Thematically, The Cloaca is the perfect ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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