The Brutal Telling

“In the end the answer to a murder investigation was always devastatingly simple. It was always right there, obvious. Hiding in facts and evidence and likes, and the misperceptions of the investigators.” These sentences, from ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Swap

By John McFetridge

With all the traffic over the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, the border patrols cannot possibly check every vehicle – a simple fact that criminals like Vernard “Get” McGetty count upon. Get is retired ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Canada and Other Matters of Opinion

By Rex Murphy

As a former Newfoundland politician and a commentator for both The Globe and Mail and CBC’s The National, Rex Murphy is arguably Canada’s most famous pundit. Murphy is widely admired for his clever turns of ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Earth to Table: Seasonal Recipes from an Organic Farm

By Jeff Crump and Bettina Schormann

Two recent trends in cooking receive the seasonal treatment in splendid new cookbooks this fall. Since the publication of the 100 Mile Diet in 2007, “locavore” cooking – using only ingredients from local producers – ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ A Year in Lucy’s Kitchen: Seasonal Recipes and Memorable Meals

By Lucy Waverman

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen

By David Sax

Save the Deli, by Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based journalist David Sax, should come with a warning: may induce cravings for smoked-meat sandwiches, sour pickles, and chewy rye. Sax’s passion for Jewish food emanates from the pages of ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son

By Ian Brown

They are father and son. They communicate in a private language composed entirely of clicking noises. The parent is veteran Globe and Mail feature writer Ian Brown; the child, his young boy Walker, whose abilities ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir

By Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier is a poet, anthologist, and creative writing teacher. But readers coming to her memoir seeking an account of the writing life will be disappointed. Rather, this is a book about her relationship with ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Canuck Rock: A History of Canadian Popular Music

By Ryan Edwardson

Canadians are accustomed to dealing with the question of national identity. It is commonly held that ours is a country of regions held together with a tiny dollop of national glue. In Canuck Rock, historian ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti

By Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain

Contemporary knit culture embraces dichotomy – blending tradition with subversion, feminism with domesticity, art with craft – so knitters might see no contradiction in a how-to guide for knit graffiti. In Yarn Bombing, authors Mandy ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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