Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World’s Most Dangerous Places

When one hears of a journalist dying in pursuit of a story, one immediately imagines some strafed and cratered combat zone. But as investigative writer Terry Gould is quick to point out in his new ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wildlives

By Monique Proulx; David Homel and Fred A. Reed, trans.

Monique Proulx’s work might best be described as curiously flawed fiction filled with prose of inflated exuberance. Wildlives, her new novel, is no exception. With each new chapter we are gradually introduced to a densely ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Grave Doubts

By John Moss

John Moss introduced his detective duo, David Morgan and Miranda Quin, in last year’s Still Waters. They were an appealing team, navigating the bounds of professional partnership and personal involvement, more prone to banter and ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Going Ashore

By Mavis Gallant

Any new book by Mavis Gallant is an event, and Going Ashore is an interesting and unusual one, full of surprises as well as confirmations. Gallant has written a great many more pieces of fiction ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Best of Men

By Claire Letemendia

Warmongering royalty, an army plundering its own people, and morality measures pushing the brothels of London to bankruptcy: there was much to talk about in England circa 1642. And the characters in Claire Letemendia’s debut ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing

By Cecelia Frey

The jacket copy for A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing promises the reader a lyrical journey through one musician’s rise and fall, as seen through the eyes of his devoted girlfriend. It begins on ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cecilian Vespers

By Anne Emery

After the tumultuous personal upheaval that Halifax lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins underwent in Barrington Street Blues, this fourth volume in Anne Emery’s mystery series gives him welcome respite on the family front. This time, ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Beautiful Children

By Michael Kenyon

Memory and loss are themes that run through much of the CanLit canon. In her two novels, Anne Michaels has made these twin touchstones into a kind of cottage industry. Michael Kenyon, another poet/novelist, has ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Automatic World

By Struan Sinclair

Winnipeg-based author Struan Sinclair’s daring and accomplished debut novel is that rare type of book that sets out to be deliberately difficult. Take the book’s puzzle-like structure, which comprises four disparate narratives nested inside one ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Incident Report

By Martha Baillie

As its title suggests, Martha Baillie’s fourth novel consists of a series of “incident reports” written by Miriam Gordon, a 35-year-old employee of the Toronto Public Library. Miriam is a “Public Service Assistant” at Allan ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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