Reviews

The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006–

To the exaltation of many Canadians, the outrage of many others, and the sheer incomprehension of most in the country’s chattering classes, Stephen Harper has survived and prospered as prime minister for the past seven ... Read More »

November 18, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Pretty Sight

By David O’Meara

David O’Meara’s A Pretty Sight ranges widely across poetic form and historical reference. Though there are some extended sequences – the longest of which is the rhapsodic travel poem “Circa Now” – the collection mainly ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Metal on Ice: Tales from Canada’s Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes

By Sean Kelly

Near the end of Metal on Ice, Toronto musician Sean Kelly writes that, in almost every book about Canadian music he’s ever read, his “heavy metal and hard rock heroes have been relegated to footnote ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Ivory, Horn and Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis

By Ronald Orenstein

In the tradition of crusading animal lovers such as Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, zoologist, lawyer, and wildlife conservationist Ronald Orenstein has penned a passionate call to rescue two of the planet’s oldest and most ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

50 Canadians Who Changed the World

By Ken McGoogan

The humble list is having a major media moment. The success of Buzzfeed, a news and culture site that has embraced the list form, has pushed established news outlets (such as the CBC and The ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: History

The NHL: 100 Years of On-Ice Action and Boardroom Battles

By D’Arcy Jenish

The author of histories of the Montreal Canadiens and the St. Lawrence Seaway, D’Arcy Jenish clearly enjoys comprehensive retrospectives, and this trait is evident in his new book on the NHL’s first century. If you’re ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco

By John Glassco; Brian Busby, ed.

In the introduction to A Gentleman of Pleasure, his 2011 biography of John Glassco, Brian Busby points out that the flamboyant memoirist, pornographer, poet, and flâneur characterized himself as “a great practitioner of deceit.” “Among ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The War on Science: Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper’s Canada

By Chris Turner

Chris Turner is angry. And he has every right to be. In The War on Science, the veteran journalist lays out the federal Conservatives’ systematic efforts to remove science from Canadian politics. His argument is ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Chuvalo: A Fighter’s Life

By George Chuvalo and Murray Greig

Here are some things commonly said of boxing hall-of-famer George Chuvalo: he could take a punch, he threw powerful body shots that sometimes drifted below the belt, he never won a major title, and his ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Dollybird

By Anne Lazurko

Set in and around Moose Jaw and Ibsen, Saskatchewan, in 1906, Dollybird tells the story of a 20-year-old Newfoundlander named Moira Burns who is banished by her mother when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock. ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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