★ White Rapids

By Pascal Blanchet; Helge Duscher, trans.

Historical fiction, because of its innate subjectivity and its frequently stodgy presentation, can be a thorny proposition, no less so when the work in question is a comic book. But two new historically themed graphic ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Graphica

Macdonald

By Roy MacSkimming

Sir John A. Macdonald is being removed from the cramped cupboard of Canadian history for a series of contemporary airings, more than half a century after Donald Creighton brought out his impressive two-volume biography of ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Literary Celebrity in Canada

By Lorraine York

In this slim book, Lorraine York, a professor of English at McMaster University, examines the condition of literary celebrity in Canada. She begins by looking at early celebrity authors in this country – Pauline Johnson, ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Shut Up He Explained

By John Metcalf

John Metcalf is tired of being called a literary crank. Right near the beginning of this fatally unbalanced collection of literary memoir, travel memoir, criticism, and belles-lettres sweepings, the author, literary critic, and former Porcupine’s ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Rick Mercer Report: The Book

By Rick Mercer

Comedian Rick Mercer has won more than 30 Gemini awards and received numerous government honours for lampooning Canadian politics and its uninspiring players. Rick Mercer Report: The Book collects dozens of his hugely popular “rants,” ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill

By Pino Posteraro

Chef Pino Posteraro hails originally from Calabria, the toe of Italy’s boot. He has cooked in Toronto, Singapore, and throughout Italy. In 1999, he opened his Vancouver restaurant, Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill, recognized since then as ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Smuggler’s Blues: The Saga of a Marijuana Importer

By Jay Carter Brown

The United Nations recently reported that Canada leads the industrialized world in pot smoking per capita. Montrealer Jay Carter Brown could likely claim more than a little responsibility for that distinction. In Smuggler’s Blues, Brown ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Sad, Mad and Bad: Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800

By Lisa Appignanesi

In her impressive and frustrating new book, Lisa Appignanesi, author of Freud’s Women, Losing the Dead, and others, provides a tour through the minefield of women’s mental illness (real or assumed) from the 18th century’s ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge

By Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard, and Nick Rivers

Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson and Simon Fraser University profs Marc Jaccard and Nic Rivers go to town with this look at Canada’s abysmal record on climate change. They’re mostly preaching to the eco-choir ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture

By Tim Bowling

Readers picking up this book should be forewarned by its title: this is nostalgia with an edge. Novelist and award-winning poet Tim Bowling grew up in the 1960s in Ladner, on the banks of the ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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