Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border

Most modern North American works of political science and political history – both academic and popular – focus on two interrelated themes: security and sovereignty. Added to those preoccupations in the decade since 9/11 is ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society

By Ian Dowbiggin

According to a 2009 report from the Public Health Agency of Canada, a whopping 20 per cent of Canadians will experience some mental health issue in their lifetimes. This includes 4.8 per cent who will ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time

By Jessa Gamble

At one point in our collective history, humans didn’t measure time. At least, not in the neatly segmented, overly regimented way we do now around most of the planet. In the past, time was measured ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Infrared

By Nancy Huston

Nancy Huston is something of a biographical curiosity and an ever bigger bibliographical one. She was born and reared in Calgary, and educated at elite institutions in New York and Paris. (Roland Barthes supervised her ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman, 1944–1965

By Max Nemni and Monique Nemni; George Tombs, trans.

Trudeau Transformed is the follow-up to the 2006 bio Young Trudeau by husband-and-wife team Max and Monique Nemni, taking the enigmatic and controversial “son of Quebec” and “father of Canada” from the shock of attending ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Once You Break a Knuckle

By D.W. Wilson; D.W. Wilson

The challenge of giving literary voice to working-class characters too inarticulate, unselfconscious, and just plain beaten down to do so for themselves has been taken up by authors as diverse as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Girl in Shades

By Allison Baggio

Growing up, Maya Devine never understood why her half-Irish mother dragged her to Hindu temple, or made her stand on the streetcorners of Saskatoon handing out passages from the Baghavad Gita. Maya has always been ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories

By Johanna Skibsrud

Johanna Skibsrud blasted onto the literary stage with The Sentimentalists, which won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her follow-up, a collection of short stories, is likely to provide ammunition to those who questioned the merits ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Autobiography of Childhood

By Sina Queyras

Autobiography of Childhood is the first novel by acclaimed Montreal poet and critic Sina Queyras. Unfolding over the course of a single day, the novel follows the five surviving siblings of the Combral family as ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Return

By Dany Laferrière; David Homel, trans.

Don’t tell Dany Laferrière you can’t go home again; he won’t believe you. Instead, he’ll prove that going home isn’t just a state of mind or a literal journey, but a fierce and discombobulating act ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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