In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

Gabor Maté’s latest book is a sprawling but fascinating look at addiction that is part science, part diatribe, part character study, and part confessional. Maté, a physician at the Portland Clinic in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Prognosis: The Current State and Shaky Future of Canada’s Health System

By John Lawrence Reynolds

Talking about health care is as Canadian a pastime as watching hockey. That’s the argument made by John Lawrence Reynolds in his introduction to Prognosis. A mystery novelist and non-fiction author, Reynolds writes not as ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Falling

By Anne Simpson

From the very first sentence of Falling, award-winning poet Anne Simpson’s second novel, it’s clear that this will be a story about grief and the constrained living that goes on around it. On the first ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference

By Katie Smith Milway; Eugenie Fernandes, illus.

In One Hen, Massachusetts writer Katie Smith Milway teams up with award-winning Canadian author and illustrator Eugenie Fernandes to tell a story of hope and persistence. Set in Ghana, the book chronicles how a young ... Read More »

January 21, 2008

The Real Made Up

By Stephen Brockwell

George Ellenbogen, a longtime resident of the U.S., is one of those rare Canadian poets better known abroad than at home. Morning Gothic, his selection of new and previously published work, shows just how arbitrary ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

The Work of Days

By Sarah Lang

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

Actualities

By Monica Kidd

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

Morning Gothic: New and Selected Poems

By George Ellenbogen

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants

By Kevin Patterson and Jane Warren, eds.

“What do any of us really know about Afghanistan?” the editors of this volume ask in their preface. Readers looking for answers to why Canada is involved, and how this faraway land continues to be ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The City of Words

By Alberto Manguel

“Language is our common denominator.” This sentence, the opener of The City of Words, the 2007 edition of the CBC Massey Lectures, is at once a rhetorical salvo, an overly broad generalization (surely humanity, not ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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