The Water Man’s Daughter

Contemporary Johannesburg is the setting for this impressive debut about an unlikely trio of women brought together in the wake of a Canadian water executive’s murder. Under cover of night, an activist group, led by ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Cure Is a Forest

By Desi Di Nardo

“The trail is a circle / The cure is a forest.” With these incantatory words, Desi Di Nardo propels readers on a journey that sees nature anew – a journey that does not soar above ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Captivity: 118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War

By James Loney

In this new memoir, James Loney, a Toronto-based peace activist and writer, recounts the circumstances of his widely publicized 2005 kidnapping in Iraq. A member of Christian Peacemaker Teams, Loney was snatched along with three ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme

By Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman, eds.

With Persistence, editors Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman have produced an inclusive and balanced anthology that illuminates a wide array of issues surrounding gender and identity. The book covers vast territory, but the pieces ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Edith Sitwell: Avant-Garde Poet, English Genius

By Richard Greene

It’s not uncommon for a literary biographer to follow his or her biography with an edition of the subject’s letters. Richard Greene of the University of Toronto has done the reverse. His Selected Letters of ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty

By William Byers

With The Blind Spot, William Byers, professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics at Concordia University, has written a passionate, informed manifesto that takes aim at our culture’s reigning myth of scientific certainty. Byers would like ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Maurice Richard

By Charles Foran

Ask any patriotic Canadian what this country’s greatness is based on, and you’re liable to receive two responses: hockey and health care. New instalments of Penguin Canada’s Extraordinary Canadians titles (which comprise two of the ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Tommy Douglas

By Vincent Lam

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Distillery Songs

By Mike Spry

Readers who like to be shocked may take to Distillery Songs. I am not among them. I found the collection largely immature, and felt that it read as though the author’s ultimate aim was to ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Arrhythmia

By Alice Zorn

Alice Zorn’s first novel follows five Montrealers as they navigate critical junctures in their relationships. Joelle, a former film student now working as a medical secretary, has just turned 40. Her husband, Marc, has become ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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