★ Buttercup’s Lovely Day

Buttercup is blissed out. On a beautiful summer day, the happy cow rhapsodizes about her delight in the rural world. She loves this day, the clouds, the fields, her tongue, the creek –and that’s just ... Read More »

May 12, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Twelve Trees

By J.D. Carpenter

In Twelve Trees, author J.D. Carpenter moves away from the well-received genre work of his Campbell Young mysteries and into a more mainstream form. The new novel explores one day in the life of opinionated ... Read More »

April 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Full-Time: A Soccer Story

By Alan Twigg

Soccer is, without dispute, the world’s most popular sport. From casual games of kickabout to the heights of international competition, those who play and watch the game do so passionately. This passion is at the ... Read More »

April 21, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The K Handshape

By Maureen Jennings

Maureen Jennings’ name should be familiar to Canadian mystery readers as well as fans of the TV adaptations of her seven novels starring Victorian-era Toronto detective William Murdoch. She has since turned her attention to ... Read More »

April 14, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Report on the Afterlife of Culture

By Stephen Henighan

Literary criticism in Canada suffers from a plague of timidity. There are many reasons for this, but one of the primary ones is the misguided notion that a vibrant literary culture depends on blind boosterism ... Read More »

April 7, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

★ Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality

By Drew Hayden Taylor, ed.

If you’ve ever wondered about the relative abundance of pubic hair among women and men of the First Nations, you don’t have to feel alone anymore. Me Sexy, an anthology of 13 essays on the ... Read More »

March 31, 2008 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

High Wire Act: Ted Rogers and the Empire that Debt Built

By Caroline Van Hasselt

These two new books about the Asper and Rogers media empires won’t get anywhere near as much attention as the new memoirs from Jean Chrétien and Brian Mulroney or Naomi Klein’s latest work. However, they ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Asper Nation: Canada’s Most Dangerous Media Company

By Marc Edge

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Forage

By Rita Wong

Forage, Rita Wong’s second collection, is poetry that attacks modern power politics and attempts to modernize traditional poetics without stripping them of their value. These are poems that find their voice in the didactic. Indeed, ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn’t Seem to Care)

By William Marsden

Books about ecological catastrophe can be real downers, but a sense of humour and lively writing make William Marsden’s entry into the suddenly popular category of inconvenient truths well worth a look. A journalist with ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

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