Sanaaq

By Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk; Peter Frost, trans.

As Bernard Saladin d’Anglure observes in his foreword to Sanaaq, “this is an atypical novel.” Written in Inuktitut over a period of many years beginning in the 1950s, and first published in syllabic script in ... Read More »

February 24, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cadillac Cathedral

By Jack Hodgins

In his new novel, Jack Hodgins returns to the Vancouver Island community of Portuguese Creek that served as the setting for earlier books such as Broken Ground and Distance. Here, an unorthodox road trip is ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Language Matters: Interviews with 22 Quebec Poets

By Carolyn Marie Souaid and Endre Farkas; eds.

It is hardly surprising that poets should be articulate and thoughtful in conversation about their practice. Their daily working lives constellate around language: listening to it, looking for it, recording it before whatever the Muse ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Wood

By Jennica Harper

One of the most difficult relationships to describe is the connection between an audience (whether they be readers, listeners, or viewers) and fictional characters. It’s one thing when a deeply obsessed brony announces he believes ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Great Expectations: The Lost Toronto Blue Jays Season

By Shi Davidi and John Lott

Great Expectations is a first pass at the history of the 2013 Toronto Blue Jays, written by two of the team’s best beat reporters, Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi and the National Post’s John Lott. Positioned as ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Fists upon a Star: A Memoir of Love, Theatre and Escape from McCarthyism

By Florence Bean James with Jean Freeman

Taken from Stephen Vincent Benét’s epic Civil War poem John Brown’s Body, the title Fists upon a Star refers to the tenacity and forbearance of indefatigable theatre producers Florence Bean James and husband Burton James. ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Troubled Pilgrimage: Passage to Pakistan

By Balwant Bhaneja

What makes us decide to stay in one place or leave our homes forever? That is the question that underpins Balwant Bhaneja’s memoir. A retired Canadian diplomat raised in India, Bhaneja decides to search for ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hostile Seas: A Mission in Pirate Waters

By JL Savidge

In 2008, JL Savidge was a 33-year-old intelligence officer aboard the HMCS Ville de Québec, patrolling the Mediterranean on a NATO counter-terrorism mission. However, a call from Ottawa drastically changed the Ville de Québec’s mission, ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Orr: My Story

By Bobby Orr

A hockey prodigy at the age of 12 and a legend by the time he made his professional debut with the Boston Bruins at 18, Bobby Orr enjoyed the kind of early celebrity that can ... Read More »