Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer prefaces her third novel by noting that some of its more putatively dubious plot points are in fact…Read More »
January 28, 2014 at 10:49pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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In Unexploded, which was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, life in 1940 Brighton is tense and terrifying. Following…Read More »
November 13, 2013 at 10:56am | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
At more than 700 pages, Flight of the Eagle, the latest work of history from Conrad Black, is both bloated…Read More »
August 16, 2013 at 12:24pm | Filed under: History
Binge-eating, suicidal thoughts, sexual frustration, alienated parents, best-friend-turned-mean-girl – in short, a good wallow in what one character calls a…Read More »
August 1, 2013 at 10:12am | Filed under:
Vancouver screenwriter and playwright Loretta Seto’s debut picture book is a lovely, touching story that functions well as both entertainment…Read More »
March 19, 2013 at 09:22am | Filed under: Picture Books
Farina is the deeply cynical and unhappy daughter of Bangladeshi parents. Living in a Muslim ghetto in a large Canadian…Read More »
January 3, 2013 at 10:46am | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In the latest issue of the recently reanimated magazine The Baffler, Steve Almond takes aim at Jon Stewart and Stephen…Read More »
December 10, 2012 at 10:33am | Filed under: Reference
There is a lot about school that is curious, as Zander Sherman outlines in his provocative examination of the history…Read More »
August 27, 2012 at 02:15pm | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Toronto poet and author JonArno Lawson puts a new spin on the well-known children’s song, replacing the familiar E-I-E-I-O refrain…Read More »
June 27, 2012 at 04:09pm | Filed under: Picture Books
Traditional narrative strategies and formal experimentation, as well as fiction and autobiography, blend comfortably in Anne Fleming’s latest collection of…Read More »
June 25, 2012 at 10:48am | Filed under: Fiction: Short
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