Meadowlark

Bildungsroman are meant to offer readers an acceleration of personal development, beginning at a critical turning point in the central character’s young life and continuing to the elusive moment at which they greet adulthood. For ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Truffaut Notebook

By Sam Solecki

There is a spectre haunting retired University of Toronto English professor Sam Solecki’s new book about François Truffaut – the spectre of Jean-Luc Godard. Solecki is not the first critic to contrast the twin figureheads ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption

By Brian Gorman

MacEwan University assistant professor of communication Brian Gorman argues that the Internet and the 2008 economic downturn had deleterious effects on ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fugitives

By Lise Gauvin; Jonathan Kaplansky trans.

It’s a cliché that the nuances of a written work can be lost in translation; what’s distressing in Canada is how many worthy works are lost without it. New English-language editions of story collections by ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Arvida

By Samuel Archibald; Donald Winkler (trans.)

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Illegal

By Lawrence Hill

If the statistics are to be believed, we are facing a global refugee crisis. According to the United Nations, there were a staggering 59.5 million people forcibly displaced from their homes by the end of ... Read More »

September 8, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Captive

By Claudine Dumont; David Scott Hamilton (trans.)

In her debut novel, Quebec photographer and teacher Claudine Dumont plunges the reader into the depths of a nightmare with a visceral immediacy that leaves one gasping for breath. Emma is the sort of person ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada

By Robert Bothwell

University of toronto history professor Robert Bothwell traverses Seymour Lipsett territory in his new examination of how two countries so close in proximity can have developed in such divergent ways, concluding that “Canada oscillates on ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Disarming Conflict: Why Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield

By Ernie Regehr

“Peace, no less than politics, is the art of the possible.” So writes Ernie Regehr, activist and founder of Project Ploughshares, in his new book about the futility of trying to solve global conflicts through ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Afterlife of Birds

By Elizabeth Philips

The debut novel from Saskatoon poet Elizabeth Philips (A Blue with Blood in It and Beyond My Keeping, both of which won the Saskatchewan Poetry Award) features a man who obsessively rebuilds skeletons of birds ... Read More »