The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World of Rob Ford

The saga of Rob Ford, the unlikely and unfathomable former Toronto mayor, is the rare political story that fascinates long after it has effectively ended. Ford, who is fighting cancer, is out of the international ... Read More »

November 2, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey into the New Heart of Africa

By Will Ferguson

The 1994 Rwandan genocide was a particularly gruesome affair, even by 20th century standards of mass extermination. The Hutu-led government orchestrated the slaughter of as many as a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus, with most ... Read More »

October 29, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hope Makes Love

By Trevor Cole

Hope Riopelle is a post-doc fellow in Toronto doing research on the brain. Zep Baker is a former pro baseball player trying to reunite with his ex-wife, Emily. Zep wants Hope to help him achieve ... Read More »

October 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Two-Gun & Sun

By June Hutton

Corpses, feral pigs, swarming moths, the reek of urine, and the “arsenic gloom of midday” represent only a handful of the distressing things Lila Sinclair encounters in 1922 Black Mountain, B.C., an imaginary company town ... Read More »

October 22, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ History’s People: Personalities and the Past

By Margaret MacMillan

History and biography are often treated as two distinct subjects. The former is considered an academic discipline, focused on serious events that are soberly analyzed using statistics and archival sources. By contrast, the latter is ... Read More »

October 19, 2015 | Filed under: History

★ The River

By Helen Humphreys

Comparing The River to Helen Humphreys’s critically acclaimed bestseller The Frozen Thames, her 2007 collection of vignettes about the eponymous river, it’s obvious that the author is not content to repeat past successes. The new ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ex-Yu

By Josip Novakovich

In his new book of stories, Josip Novakovich, who was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, presents a diverse, bracingly eccentric cast of characters. An essayist as well as author of the novel ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Life with Words: A Writer’s Memoir

By Richard B. Wright

Richard B. Wright’s eloquent memoir of his life as a novelist and teacher is written in the third-person singular. This gives it a big advantage. By referring to himself as “he” rather than “I,” the ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Superior Man

By Paul Yee

Paul Yee has built a respected career as a children’s and young-adult author, from the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning picture book Ghost Train to the contemporary LGBT YA novel Money Boy. The author, who holds ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Entrainment

By Ewan Whyte

Laura Clarke’s witty romp, Decline of the Animal Kingdom, helped her win the 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (when the selections were called Mule Variations). In her debut collection, she ruminates on ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

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