Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome

Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome marks a potent fiction debut for Newfoundland playwright Megan Gail Coles. These 16 stories are often rather brief, but rarely short on impact. The diverse characters are united in ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Battle of London: Trudeau, Thatcher, and the Fight for Canada’s Constitution

By Frédéric Bastien; Jacob Homel trans.

A book about the struggle to repatriate Canada’s Constitution in the 1980s has no right to be as entertaining as Frédéric Bastien’s The Battle of London. The journalist and Dawson College history professor created a ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History

By Andrew Cohen

The life of John F. Kennedy has been examined from so many angles it would seem hard to conjure a fresh perspective on the man. Yet in Two Days in June, author and journalist Andrew ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Green Hotel

By Jesse Gilmour

One good turn deserves another. Jesse Gilmour, son of novelist David Gilmour, was the subject of his father’s best-selling 2007 memoir, The Film Club. Now he has come forth with his own book, a novella ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rewrite

By Temenuga Trifonova

York University professor Temenuga Trifonova’s debut novel is a provocative intellectual mystery, delving into the curious world of academia and the perplexities of personal identity. The story follows Bruno Leblon, a university lecturer in Paris ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Compulsive Acts: Essays, Interviews, Reflections on the Works of Sky Gilbert

By David Bateman (ed.)

Sky Gilbert is arguably one of the most famous – or infamous – theatre artists in Canada. A playwright and director, Gilbert is best known for his avant-garde theatrical works, produced over a lengthy career ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Innocence on Trial: The Framing of Ivan Henry

By Joan McEwen

On November 28, 2014, an Ontario Superior Court withdrew a murder charge against Leighton Hay, who had spent the previous 12 years behind bars for a crime that, it turns out, he didn’t commit. According ... Read More »

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

Harold Town

By Iris Nowell

Harold Barling Town, Canada’s “enfant terrible” over the course of an artistic career that spanned the 1950s to the ’80s, was a celebrity in his day. A compulsively prolific artist with a theatrical, over-the-top personality, ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Knife Party at the Hotel Europa

By Mark Anthony Jarman

It’s unfortunate, but the qualities that make Mark Anthony Jarman the most interesting, if not the best, short-story writer in Canada today – in particular his unorthodox, experimental approach to style and form – are ... Read More »

February 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Evening Chorus

By Helen Humphreys

"There is nothing natural about a human being,” admits Rose Hunter, one of three central characters in Helen Humphreys’ latest novel. Set in the wartime England of The Lost Garden (2002) and Coventry (2008), and ... Read More »

February 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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