Better Living Through Plastic Explosives

Zsuzsi Gartner’s 1999 debut story collection, All the Anxious Girls on Earth, effectively captured millennial jitters by presenting readers with a gallery of relatable heroines driven to extreme actions by the centrifugal force of the ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Cold Night for Alligators

By Nick Crowe

Jasper is unsatisfied with his job, his girlfriend Kim, and his life in general, but seems unable to break out of his rut. Change is thrust upon him – literally – when he is pushed ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Four Stages of Cruelty

By Keith Hollihan

Ditmarsh Penitentiary is a world unto itself, with its own hierarchies, social codes, twisted relationships, and history. It also has its own secrets, as corrections officer Kali Williams discovers early in The Four Stages of ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Divinity Gene

By Matthew J. Trafford

In these unique and wildly imaginative stories, Matthew J. Trafford pairs crisp diction with unpredictable plots: you think you’re going to arrive on the third floor, but the elevator takes you to another floor altogether, ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Two Generals

By Scott Chantler

Scott Chantler’s new graphic novel for adults tells the story of the Allied invasion of Normandy – focusing on the little-known battle of Buron – from the perspective of two Canadian soldiers in the Highland ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Graphica

Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman

By Goran Simic

In Goran Simic we have a modern problem: a major writer – Simic is one of the leading poets of his native Bosnia, which he escaped with his family in 1995 – working in the ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

The Fetch

By Nico Rogers

Nico Rogers’ collection of prose poems about life in the outport towns of Newfoundland a generation ago has a close precedent in Michael Crummey’s Hard Light (1988), also published by Brick Books. The first half ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Witness: Selected Poems 1962–2010

By Patrick Lane

Witness is Patrick Lane’s fourth selected poems in about as many decades, and his first since 1997. It includes more recent poems, and some earlier ones that the previous volume excluded. At 96 pages, it’s ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

The Long Trail: My Life in the West

By Ian Tyson

At the age of 77, legendary Canadian songwriter Ian Tyson has published a memoir focusing on his three main interests: horses, music, and women. Tyson wrote “Four Strong Winds,” one of country music’s all-time great ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

How to Be a Bush Pilot: A Field Guide to Getting Luckier

By Claudia Dey

Sex is probably second only to personal finance among the many subjects readers are constantly seeking advice on. Claudia Dey, formerly a sex columnist for the defunct Toro magazine and The Globe and Mail, and ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

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