Five Roses

Readers familiar with Miriam Toews’s earnest rendering of suicide’s complexities and heartbreak in All My Puny Sorrows will appreciate Alice Zorn’s admirable second novel for its equally sober depiction of the lasting impact the act ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

By Ross King

In the spring of 1914, Georges Clemenceau – journalist, republican, once and future prime minster of France – paid a visit to his close friend Claude Monet. The artist had been depressed since the death ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Dependent: A Memoir of Marriage and the Military

By Danielle Daniel

In The Dependent, Danielle Daniel shares the interconnected stories of her troubled marriage to a military man, her struggles with depression, and the accident that left her husband a paraplegic. Recently, several strong women writers ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The “Red” Kelly Story

By David M. Dupuis; L. Waxy Gregoire; Leonard “Red” Kelly

As far as most hockey fans are concerned, there’s only one No. 4. But throughout the 1950s and most of the ’60s – that is, before Bobby Orr ever laced up his skates – No. ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Path of Most Resistance

By Russell Wangersky

With The Path of Most Resistance, his first new collection since the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted Whirl Away in 2012, Russell Wangersky affirms his position as one of the finest short-story writers currently working in this ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

By David Sax

At one point in The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter, David Sax tells the story of a marketing rep’s attempt to steer him away from writing another conventional book. She suggests ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Fatalists

By Patrick Blennerhassett

Most everyone has experienced the aggravation of temporarily losing cellphone or Internet services. But what would happen if all these forms of communication suddenly disappeared – simultaneously, and perhaps forever? How intense would the aggravation ... Read More »

August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

By Todd Gordon‚ Jeffery R. Webber

Despite a recent change in government and the widespread “Canada is back” rhetoric accompanying it, Canucks travelling abroad may still choose to keep the maple leaf decal off their backpacks after reading this stinging indictment ... Read More »

August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Hidden Keys

By André Alexis

André Alexis’s new novel – Book 3 in a projected five-book sequence – takes place in a Toronto that will be instantly recognizable to anybody who has walked the same streets and slumped in the ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Wonder

By Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue’s latest novel thrusts us back into a small, claustrophobic room. Inside is a child, and once again, the child’s life is in danger. An intense drama unfolds. You are never sure how it ... Read More »