The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul

Head through the Ideas or Books section of any weekend paper these days and an unquestioned orthodoxy quickly asserts itself from behind the veneer of open-minded enquiry. That orthodoxy is the doctrine of scientific materialism, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Benoit: Wrestling with the Horror That Destroyed a Family and Crippled a Sport

By Steven Johnson, Heath McCoy, Irvin Muchnick, and Greg Oliver

In Benoit, four wrestling journalists pen essays about the Alberta-born grappler Chris Benoit, who – in a possible fit of steroid-induced rage – murdered his wife and child before killing himself in Atlanta in June ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army

By Christie Blatchford

Stating the obvious: you either love Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford or you loathe her. To those in the former group, she is the shoots-from-the-hip, tough-as-nails scribe of the people with a heart of ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Ruby Tuesday

By Mike Harrison

Many mystery buffs have credited Louise Penny with the revival of the type of traditional murder mystery made famous by Agatha Christie. Such claims are somewhat exaggerated for a career only three books old, yet ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Cruellest Month

By Louise Penny

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Everybody I Shot Is Dead

By Deborah Chesher

It would seem unlikely, at this late date, for there to be something noteworthy about a book of portraiture, one of the seemingly most degraded of visual art forms. After all, if you can have ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Stand Still

By Nigel Dickson

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Two Hemispheres

By Nadine McInnis

Two Hemispheres, Ottawa-based poet Nadine McInnis’s fifth collection, is a chronicle of depression and recovery told from both a personal and a historical viewpoint. McInnis constructs 10 accounts of mental illness based on mid-19th-century photographs ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Remembering the Bones

By Frances Itani

Frances Itani is a marvellous short story writer. Her collections Poached Egg on Toast and Leaning, Leaning over Water are absolutely first-rate. Her new novel, Remembering the Bones, starts with the same sense of vivid ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Black Rabbit and Other Stories

By Salvatore Difalco

Niagara Falls, the “honeymoon capital of the world,” has a dark side. In Black Rabbit, the short-fiction debut by Salvatore Difalco (who lives there), that tourist haven is populated by rapists, junkie moms, and violent ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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