Rocksalt, “the first anthology of British Columbia poetry since 1977,” as it’s billed in co-editor Harold Rhenisch’s introductory remarks, includes the work of 108 contemporary Canadian poets who lay some claim to being from our ... Read More »
March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry
In Dante’s War, Sandra Sabatini portrays fascist Italy through the lives of two young Italians: Dante becomes a soldier in the Second World War, while Angelina works on her family’s farm in a rural village. ... Read More »
March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Admirers of his previous fiction might be forgiven for feeling that, with his new novel Wake (the first in his much-ballyhooed new contract with Penguin Canada), Toronto science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer has turned an ... Read More »
March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
On April 22, 1999, one month into the NATO offensive against Serbia, Boris Bulie stands on the last barely functioning bridge over the Danube into Belgrade, watching bombs fall on the city he used to ... Read More »
March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The people we meet while travelling often have an enormous effect on our lives. Ann Eriksson’s second novel, In the Hands of Anubis, testifies to this fact. Travelling to Africa, Calgarian Trevor Wallace encounters Constance ... Read More »
March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Otto Sinclair has tried to do the right thing all his life. But under the weight of his mother’s strict rules and, later, his stultifying marriage, he can’t figure out how to lead a “normal” ... Read More »
March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Crime of Fashion, Cuban-born Cuban-born José Latour’s first novel since immigrating to Canada from Spain, brings his recurring protagonist, Elliot Steil, to the author’s adopted home of Toronto. When Jenny Scheindlin, retired fashion model and ... Read More »
March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
As Canadian baby boomers enter their senior years, we seem to have missed out on the U.S.’s apparently recession-proof cottage industry of books on the 1960s. Trent University professor and author Bryan D. Palmer attempts ... Read More »
March 20, 2009 | Filed under: History
Bears both frighten and intrigue us. Our complicated relationship with these wild beasts is reflected in the extensive selection of books about them, which variously consider bears as wildlife, spiritual creatures, trophies, tourist attractions, and ... Read More »
March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
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