Ken Babstock sprinkled a few of the poems collected in Methodist Hatchet in journals across Canada. These poems were alternately baffling and amazing, and many of them contained aphorisms that will be mined – rightly, ... Read More »
May 9, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry
In Jo Treggiari’s stunning new YA novel, the world ends with neither a bang nor a whimper. Rather, the end comes with droughts and floods, plus a smallpox epidemic that wipes out 99 per cent ... Read More »
May 2, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Only the most intransigent heart will be unmoved by Andrew Westoll’s account of his time spent volunteering at Quebec’s Fauna Sanctuary, a refuge for chimpanzees that have been “retired” from biomedical research. In Westoll’s hands, ... Read More »
April 27, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Look Down is novelist, cultural commentator, and Broken Pencil magazine founder Hal Niedzviecki’s first collection of short stories since 1998. The stories here are raw, energetic, and, like the author’s 2001 novel Ditch, tend to ... Read More »
April 18, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Even when things go well for the characters in Jessica Westhead’s new short story collection, they nevertheless feel certain something will go wrong soon. With her penchant for supremely neurotic protagonists and thematic complexity, and ... Read More »
April 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
It is a bad sign when an author writes, as Mark Coakley does a little more than halfway through Tip and Trade, that his subject matter is “not the most action-packed to write about.” If ... Read More »
April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In January 2011, a 10-year-old New Brunswick girl became the youngest person to discover a supernova, or exploding star, situated about 240 million light years from Earth. Technology, especially as it applies to telescopes at ... Read More »
April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Frank Davey’s latest book recounts his development as poet, critic, and founding editor of the famed University of British Columbia poetry newsletter Tish. (The newsletter’s name is an anagram of “shit.”) Davey begins with his ... Read More »
April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
Ismail Boxwala is an alcoholic, middle-aged engineer working for the City of Toronto. One summer morning 20 years ago, he forgot his baby daughter, Zubi, in the back seat of his car, where she overheated ... Read More »
April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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