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All-Day Breakfast

With his new novel, Penticton, B.C., writer and teacher Adam Lewis Schroeder breaks with his literary past – which includes novels like In the Fabled East, a finalist for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – ... Read More »

February 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash

By Timothy Caulfield

Like Holden Caulfield, Timothy Caulfield has a hate-on for phonies. The difference between the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye and the writer of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? is that the latter ... Read More »

February 23, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Burqa of Skin

By Nelly Arcan; Melissa Bull (trans.)

Writers cannot control how their work is read, and this becomes infinitely more complicated after writers take their own lives. Especially pretty, young iconoclasts who write about sex work. Quebec author Nelly Arcan, whose debut ... Read More »

February 19, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Damned

By Andrew Pyper

Andrew Pyper has built a successful career writing hauntingly suspenseful supernatural thrillers. He takes another trip to the dark side with his eighth novel, this time focusing on the hope and horror within everyday existence ... Read More »

February 17, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Where the Nights Are Twice As Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

By David Eso (ed.); Jeanette Lynes (ed.)

The title of this often surprising book plays on that of another such anthology: Love Where the Nights Are Long, edited by Irving Layton in 1962. The two volumes, however, are as different as chalk ... Read More »

February 12, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Wolf Winter

By Cecilia Ekbäck

Wolf Winter is the debut novel from Swedish born, Calgary-based author Cecilia Ekbäck. Set in 1717 Sweden, the novel opens on Frederika and Dorthea who, along with their parents, have moved from Finland to Blackasen ... Read More »

February 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ravenscrag

By Alain Farah; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

The new novel by Montreal writer and French literature professor Alain Farah is less a book than an experience, a series of reactions shifting from confusion to frustration to a gradually dawning understanding and, ultimately, ... Read More »

February 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Owl and the Japanese Circus

By Kristi Charish

Alix Hiboux, the protagonist of Kristi Charish’s debut novel, is a grad student turned antiquities thief with one rule: she will not take on any jobs involving supernatural elements. With that stipulation in place, it’s ... Read More »

February 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Hunger of the Wolf

By Stephen Marche

Stephen Marche, perhaps best known for his controversial opinion pieces in Esquire and elsewhere, has shifted literary gears with The Hunger of the Wolf, his offering to the popular genre of the sweeping family saga. ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Montcalm & Wolfe: Two Men Who Forever Changed the Course of Canadian History

By Roch Carrier; Donald Winkler (trans.)

There have been many books written on the 1759 conquest of Quebec, some focusing on the defeated Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, others on the victorious James Wolfe. Early in Montcalm & Wolfe, Canadian literary lion Roch ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography

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All-Day Breakfast

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash

Burqa of Skin

The Damned

Where the Nights Are Twice As Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

Wolf Winter

Ravenscrag

Owl and the Japanese Circus

The Hunger of the Wolf

Montcalm & Wolfe: Two Men Who Forever Changed the Course of Canadian History

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