★ Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867–1891

Too many Canadians see John A. Macdonald as a comic figure; his love of patronage and alcohol leads many to dismiss his essential role in the foundation of our country. Nation Maker, the second volume ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: History

Alert to Glory

By Sally Ito

Sally Ito’s third collection of poetry is dedicated to God, “with whom the soul most richly desires communion.” In spite of some clever phrasing and musical language, it contains little that formally, structurally, or stylistically ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

The Little Shadows

By Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott’s latest novel immerses the reader in the world of vaudeville in the years 1912–17, primarily in the Canadian West and Prairies. Though the story entertains and is ably researched, it does not achieve ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World War Two

By Mark Bourrie

Ottawa journalist and academic Mark Bourrie’s new book has taken an unfortunately difficult road to bookshelves. Scheduled to be published by Key Porter Books before the publisher suspended operations, it was subsequently picked up by ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: History

★ Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal

By Jennifer McLagan

With Odd Bits, Jennifer McLagan continues the peculiar carnivorous journey she began in her first two cookbooks, Bones and Fat (a Q&Q book of the year for 2009). Those earlier books – especially the second ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for Justice and Redemption in Africa

By Gary Geddes

Prolific B.C. author Gary Geddes, whose literary peregrinations have for decades landed him in countless war zones and sites of human misery, brings to his latest work of non-fiction the veteran traveller’s wise insights and ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000–2009

By Stan Persky

Reviewing Tony Judt’s Reappraisals, Capilano University philosophy professor and literary commentator Stan Persky remarks, “the book is strikingly more coherent and tightly argued than one might expect from a compilation of seemingly disparate essays.” It ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The End of the Line

By Stephen Legault

What good is a mounted policeman who can’t ride? As it turns out, in Stephen Legault’s tightly plotted mystery, quite good indeed. It’s 1883, and the Canadian Pacific Railway is trying to tame the Kicking ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Perfect Order of Things

By David Gilmour

Readers of David Gilmour’s novels – or even observers of the wildly divisive critical reactions they inspire – know that he is an autobiographical writer. The plots of his emotionally raw but acidly cerebral novels ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate, 1857–1868

By David A. Wilson

David Wilson may just be Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s biggest fan. In the second volume of his biography (following 2008’s Thomas D’Arcy McGee: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825–1857), Wilson shows how both McGee’s words and actions ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: History

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