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What You Need

In his debut collection of short fiction, Ontario-based writer Andrew Forbes examines the delicate yet intricate nature of humanity. He does this by looking at the impact decisions or circumstances can have on individuals and ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Monologue Dogs

By Meira Cook

Eleven-year-old Ruthie Blackburn is at the heart of Méira Cook’s third novel. Cook grew up in Johannesburg and now lives in Winnipeg; like her previous novel, The House on Sugarbush Road (which won the 2013 ... Read More »

June 23, 2015 | Filed under: Featured Book Review, Poetry

Nightwatching

By Meira Cook

June 23, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crime Seen: From Patrol Cop to Profiler, My Stories from Behind the Yellow Tape

By Kate Lines

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood haunted me for an entire year. After I had inhaled every word, fascinated yet repulsed by the graphic details in what might be the best-known and best-written of all true-crime ... Read More »

June 23, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Breakneck

By Nelly Arcan; Jacob Homel trans.

When Rose Dubois and Julie O’Brien meet on an apartment rooftop during a sweltering Montreal summer, they find they share the same compulsion about achieving impossible physical perfection. Now in their thirties, each fights the ... Read More »

June 22, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet

By Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Reflecting on a girlhood spent in the Arctic town of Kuujjuaq, Sheila Watt-Cloutier describes herself as “a cautious child who didn’t like taking big risks.” That characterization may seem surprising coming from an Inuk woman ... Read More »

June 22, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Swing in the House and Other Stories

By Anita Anand

In this debut story collection, Montreal-born Anita Anand attempts to explore the dark complexities of modern-day relationships. Employing different lengths (the title story is more than 60 pages long while others could be categorized as ... Read More »

June 22, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

To Dance the Beginning of the World

By Steven Hayward

In Steven Hayward’s story “Umbrella,” an imprisoned man writes a chronology of how he came to attack his wife and her lover with a hockey stick. The man’s cellmate reads the tale and then complains ... Read More »

June 22, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Buying a Better World: George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy

By Anna Porter

It’s telling that the only reference to a serious critique of George Soros in Anna Porter’s new book about the mogul-philanthropist comes in the final pages. Sure, there are references to Glenn Beck’s anti-Semitic attacks ... Read More »

June 18, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

Do You Think This Is Strange?

By Aaron Cully Drake

There is an inherent anxiety to any novel that tries to inhabit the voice of an “other.” Indeed, it can be downright treacherous to write (or read) as someone who experiences the world in a ... Read More »

June 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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What You Need

Monologue Dogs

Nightwatching

Crime Seen: From Patrol Cop to Profiler, My Stories from Behind the Yellow Tape

Breakneck

★ The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet

Swing in the House and Other Stories

To Dance the Beginning of the World

Buying a Better World: George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy

Do You Think This Is Strange?

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