A Walker in the City

Méira Cook’s third book of poetry contains a long poem composed of seven interlocking sections. Multiple characters emerge, recede, and are created, for the most part, by writing each other into existence. The arresting first ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

Committing Theatre: Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada

By Alan Filewod

Alan Filewod, a renowned theatre historian at the University of Guelph in Ontario, is that rare breed of academic who has dedicated his career to studying Canadian theatrical history from a “radical” perspective while also ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

How Hockey Explains Canada: The Sport that Defines a Country

By Paul Henderson with Jim Prime

The next time our federal immigration minister decides to revise study materials for the citizenship test, he may want to consider including this quick history of Canada’s game. The book contains a lengthy and engrossing ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Golden Age of Liberalism: A Portrait of Roméo LeBlanc

By Naomi E.S. Griffiths

This putative biography of Roméo LeBlanc is less a story about the man than a survey of the places, issues, and times through which he passed on his journey from rural poverty in New Brunswick ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food

By Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik’s latest collection of essays examines the “question of food.” Best known as a writer for The New Yorker and now the author of the 2011 CBC Massey Lectures, Gopnik is a self-professed Francophile. ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts

By David McMillan, Frédéric Morin, and Meredith Erickson

Canada does not have a great track record when it comes to cookbooks inspired by our best restaurants. Indeed, for every Canadian restaurant that has published an accompanying cookbook domestically, one could name five deserving ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age

By Modris Eksteins

Van Gogh. Few other names carry so much cultural weight. Simply mentioning the Dutch painter calls forth myriad associations: the ubiquity of Sunflowers and Starry Night; the mystery of the severed ear; madness; depression; his ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Human Happiness

By Brian Fawcett

In his new memoir, essayist and fiction writer Brian Fawcett offers a thoughtful and beautifully written dissection of the long-standing relationship between two people who could rarely stand one another: his parents. While that duelling ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner

By Paul Litt

To put it in modern terms, John Turner’s stint as prime minister lasted only a week longer than the sham marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries. But by reminding readers of Turner’s truly remarkable ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada

By Peter C. Newman

In the May 2011 federal election, the Conservative Party of Canada finally achieved a parliamentary majority, putting to an end a long period of rule by Canada’s “Natural Governing Party,” the Liberals. This outcome startled ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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