Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists

It’s tempting to assume that Canadian women artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries were second-rate, given that the male-dominated canon of art history has portrayed them as such, simply by exclusion. Independent Spirit ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis

By Mike Barnes

Though “oblivion, and states approaching it” may, as Mike Barnes writes in the first of four lengthy essays that make up The Lily Pond, “slide away most determinedly from the very conscious act of writing,” ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

★ Burma Chronicles

By Guy Delisle

Readers familiar with Guy Delisle’s previous travel memoirs, Shenzhen and Pyongyang, may get a jolt from the cover image of his latest. In it, Delisle’s high-foreheaded and low-shouldered avatar is slouching past a heavily fortified ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Graphica

A Hummingbird Dance

By Garry Ryan

On the first anniversary of the murder of First Nations teen Alex Starchild, a cowboy’s horse returns home to its ranch without its rider. It doesn’t take detectives Lane and Harper long to connect the ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Claudia

By Britt Holmstrom

For a novel that begins with a grisly stabbing and features three other murders, Britt Holmström’s Claudia is surprisingly upbeat. Indeed, the cactus flower on the cover is a fitting symbol of the book’s central ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Red Dog, Red Dog

By Patrick Lane

Welcome to the 2008 version of the Important Canadian Novel. Like the 2007 version – Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero – Red Dog, Red Dog announces itself with a flurry of portentous poetic language, often dealing with ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Mother Superior

By Saleema Nawaz

The opening lines of the first story of Montreal author Saleema Nawaz’s debut collection are riveting and set the tone for the entire collection: “Joan won’t get an abortion … says [drinking] won’t hurt the ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Show That Smells

By Derek McCormack

Derek McCormack has some curiously compulsive creative habits. The Toronto author’s previous novel, The Haunted Hillbilly, was a cowboy story with vampires, one that subversively re-imagined the demise of crooner Hank Williams at the hands ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Scream

By Rohinton Mistry; Tony Urquhart, illus.

Rohinton Mistry’s short story “The Scream” is narrated by a man of a “great age” living in India in the same house with several generations of his family. Relegated to sleeping on a mattress in ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Great Karoo

By Fred Stenson

Like the South African plains of the title, Alberta author Fred Stenson’s eighth novel is vast and sprawling. It’s historical fiction with the emphasis firmly on the historical. For nearly 500 pages, The Great ... Read More »

October 21, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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