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My Body Is Yours

When he says “my body is yours,” Michael V. Smith means it. In his winding, emotional memoir, the author offers his reader every traceable history of his restless body, a body that causes him as ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Studio Grace: The Making of a Record

By Eric Siblin

For those unaware of the challenges involved in being an independent recording musician in 2015, Eric Siblin’s new memoir does a fine job of laying out the studio part of the equation. The book charts ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Twelve Cent Archie

By Bart Beaty

Archie comics have never been considered high art. They are most commonly found not in galleries, but on the backseats of station wagons, in bathrooms, or where Calgary-based scholar Bart Beaty first encountered them – ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Graphica

The Guy Who Pumps Your Gas Hates You

By Sean Trinder

Sean Trinder’s The Guy Who Pumps Your Gas Hates You and Hollie Adams’s Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother both focus their attention on that (hopefully brief) period after adolescence but before finding a foothold ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother

By Hollie Adams

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Breathing Lessons

By Andy Sinclair

The title of Andy Sinclair’s debut novel refers to the experience of accepting air from another person, whether through artificial respiration or by sharing a joint. A special type of breathing is involved, but once ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

#IdleNoMore and the Remaking of Canada

By Ken Coates

Every few years, Canadian complacency is punctured by potent wake-up calls about unresolved indigenous rights issues, from the tense standoff over expansion of a Quebec golf course on traditional burial grounds at Oka to the ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call

By Arthur Manuel; Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson

The seminal political scientist Benedict Anderson coined the term “imagined communities” to describe modern nations – political entities so large and diffuse that they are held together not by direct personal ties but by shared ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

The Mystics of Mile End

By Sigal Samuel

Listening for patterns in the chaos” is the overarching theme of Sigal Samuel’s debut novel, a four-pronged narrative about the mysteries of the universe set in the titular Jewish Montreal neighbourhood. With a style reminiscent ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia – The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

By Dean Jobb

Leo Koretz was the Bernie Madoff of the 1920s. The son of immigrants from Central Europe, Koretz was a Chicago lawyer turned financier who amassed a considerable fortune by convincing insufficiently diligent investors to bankroll ... Read More »

May 19, 2015 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography

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Quill and Quire

My Body Is Yours

Studio Grace: The Making of a Record

Twelve Cent Archie

The Guy Who Pumps Your Gas Hates You

Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother

Breathing Lessons

#IdleNoMore and the Remaking of Canada

Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call

The Mystics of Mile End

Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia – The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

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