★ Anticipated Results

Vancouver writer Dennis E. Bolen’s seventh work of fiction, a collection of linked stories, shows a writer at the top of his game. The stories are so closely linked they read like a novel, making ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Monoceros

By Suzette Mayr

With relentless intensity, the opening of Suzette Mayr’s fourth novel traces the joys and despairs of 17-year-old Patrick Furey in the final days before his suicide. Although he dies in the first chapter, Furey remains ... Read More »

May 24, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Pretty

By Greg Kearney

A fraudulent Celtic seer instructs a moody artist considering gender transition to act upon the desire by age 36 – or risk being decapitated. This is a fairly typical storyline in Greg Kearney’s second collection, ... Read More »

May 16, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

By Carmen Aguirre

Carmen Aguirre was destined to become a revolutionary. Born a week after the death of Che Guevara, Aguirre grew up in a household obsessed with social upheaval: her mother and stepfather were part of the ... Read More »

May 13, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

update

By Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler

Over time, various art projects have sprung out of new technologies, and this new effort from poets Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler must have been enormously fun to generate. In much the same vein as ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties

By Lawrence Aronsen

Lawrence Aronsen was a student activist in Vancouver during the 1960s. He’s now a professor of history at the University of Alberta. This combination makes him a logical person to write about the West Coast ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: History

Fall from Grace

By Wayne Arthurson

It’s thrilling, for a reader, to discover a new amateur detective devoid of stock clichés, unique and refreshingly human. To the august company of Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce and Alexander McCall Smith’s Precious Ramotswe ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Is Eating People Wrong? Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World

By Allan C. Hutchinson

In his new book, Allan C. Hutchinson, a professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, examines eight milestone legal cases from Canadian, British, American, and Australian history to support his contention that ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway: African Canadians in Hamilton

By Adrienne Shadd

By overlooking the lives and achievements of blacks in the larger story of Canada’s development, historians have done a disservice to the thousands of Africans who came to Hamilton beginning in the 1800s, when the ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: History

Everyday Flexitarian: Recipes for Vegetarians & Meat Lovers Alike

By Nettie Cronish and Pat Crocker

One of the more annoying problems plaguing gastronomy is a fickle public’s appetite for trends. (Remember how low-carb was going to change the world?) The latest dietary fad is the awkwardly named “flexitarianism,” which is ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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