★ The Good Lie

Had Crime and Punishment been set in contemporary Victoria, B.C., it might very well have ended up as The Good Lie. And while D.F. Bailey’s prose may not match Dostoevsky’s, he does exceedingly well at ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Doctor Who Was Followed by Ghosts: The Family Saga of a Chinese Woman Doctor

By Li Qunying, Louis Luping Han

In the last century, China has undergone considerable political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In The Doctor Who Was Followed by Ghosts, Li Qunying, a former member of the Communist army, delivers a memoir that recounts ... Read More »

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

Where White Horses Gallop

By Beatrice MacNeil

The tradition of storytelling in Canada finds its deepest roots along the country’s East Coast. And it is here, upon the rugged coastline of Cape Breton, that Beatrice MacNeil sets the stage for her latest ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History

By Katherine Ashenburg

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Katherine Ashenburg’s The Dirt on Clean, it’s that 17th-century Europe must have been a pungent place. According to Ashenburg’s history of cleanliness in the western world, royalty of ... Read More »

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

Smuggling Donkeys

By David Helwig

Along with Richard B. Wright’s October and D.R. MacDonald’s Lauchlin of the Bad Heart, David Helwig’s new novella is one of a string of recent Canadian books that centre on men of a certain age ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Promises to Keep

By Charles de Lint

Ottawa writer Charles de Lint has carved a successful niche for himself writing contemporary urban fantasy. Many of de Lint’s more popular works are set in the imagined city of Newford, a seemingly nondescript, mid-sized ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Man Who Forgot How to Read

By Howard Engel

One summer morning in 2001, author Howard Engel woke up, went to his front door, and realized that he could not read the front page of The Globe and Mail. At first, Engel, known to ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Trading in Memories: Travels Through a Scavenger’s Favorite Places

By Barbara Hodgson

In a time when words like “charming” and “quirky” are frequently and undeservedly used to describe bland chick-lit heroines and actresses, Barbara Hodgson’s exploration of curious and cast-off items truly merits the adjectives. How else ... Read More »

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

And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle

By Elspeth Cameron

As Canadians, we tend to overlook our own history of modern art, eclipsed as it was by the advances toward Modernism in Europe and America early in the 20th century. The 1913 New York Armory ... Read More »

December 17, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Sitcom

By David McGimpsey

David McGimpsey is a kind of Canadian pop-poetry hero. While his previous collections have been well received, they have also been subject to criticism questioning the relevance of pop-culture verse. Sitcom, McGimpsey’s latest collection, is ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

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