By the Book: Stories and Pictures

Although most widely known for her novels and short-story collections, Diane Schoemperlen won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 1998 for Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures, in which prose and found images ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Alphabetique: 26 Characteristic Fictions

By Kara Kosaka; Molly Peacock; illus.

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Skandalon

By Julie Maroh

French graphic novelist Julie Maroh’s first book, Blue is the Warmest Color, was a poignant take on young lesbian love that inspired the Palme d’Or–winning film. Maroh breaks out the full palette in her follow-up, ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Graphica

Mr. Hockey: My Story

By Gordie Howe

Hockey great Gordie Howe had long since established himself as an elite NHL talent by the time his wife, Colleen, gave birth to the couple’s first child, Marty, in 1954. Arguably the game’s best player, ... Read More »

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Sports, Health & Self-help

The Man Behind the Bow Tie: Arthur Porter on Business, Politics and Intrigue

By Arthur Porter; T.R. Todd

Hubris – and the inevitable comeuppance that follows – is what comes to mind when reading Arthur Porter’s memoir, penned with Canadian author T.R. Todd. The Man Behind the Bow Tie, we are told, was ... Read More »

November 13, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Beautiful West and the Beloved of God

By Michael Springate

The first novel by Vancouver-based playwright Michael Springate is the latest in a small wave of fiction focusing on the fraught relations between the West and the Middle East. A small wave, not because the ... Read More »

November 13, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Politics & Current Affairs

Young Neil: The Sugar Mountain Years

By Sharry Wilson

Soulful. It’s a word Neil Young uses often in his new memoir, Special Deluxe, which is framed around his obsession with cars and dogs (but mostly cars). He applies it to friends he’s known, recordings ... Read More »

November 13, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life and Cars

By Neil Young

November 13, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent

By Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is a clever and resourceful writer. He has to be in Kitten Clone, because the topic of global tech companies is enough to make even the biggest fans of Generation X tune out. ... Read More »

November 10, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Cinema of the Present

By Lisa Robertson

Ken Babstock and Lisa Robertson use experimental forms to navigate contemporary experiences of globalization and the surveillance state, writes Jason Wiens Numerous writers have undertaken the project of “cognitive mapping” since the Marxist critic Fredric ... Read More »

November 6, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

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By the Book: Stories and Pictures

Alphabetique: 26 Characteristic Fictions

Skandalon

Mr. Hockey: My Story

The Man Behind the Bow Tie: Arthur Porter on Business, Politics and Intrigue

The Beautiful West and the Beloved of God

Young Neil: The Sugar Mountain Years

Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life and Cars

Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent

Cinema of the Present

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