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Unexploded

In Unexploded, which was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, life in 1940 Brighton is tense and terrifying. Following the German invasion of France, the English city becomes focused on a potential incursion from ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Last of the Lumbermen

By Brian Fawcett

Brian Fawcett’s engrossing new book is as good as any hockey novel gets. Whether you’re a fan of the sport or a devotee of tense, multi-threaded storytelling, you’ll find something to love in this book ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Multitudes

By Margaret Christakos

The title of Margaret Christakos’s latest volume of poetry is polyvalent on a number of levels: it speaks to the eclecticism of the book’s poetics; it alludes to Whitman; it references the work of philosophers ... Read More »

November 11, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

A Great Game: The Forgotten Leafs and the Rise of Professional Hockey

By Stephen J. Harper

If A Great Game had been written by someone other than the sitting prime minister of Canada, it would have debuted with little fanfare. But because Stephen Harper (or Stephen J. Harper, as his name appears ... Read More »

November 7, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Crooked Maid

By Dan Vyleta

“When I set out to write The Crooked Maid,” says Dan Vyleta in the acknowledgements to his 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated novel, “I had contracted the Balzacian bug.” Vyleta’s reference is appropriate, since the 19th-century ... Read More »

November 5, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

By Clive Thompson

Most people agree the digital revolution has dramatically changed the way we live, with some even taking the McLuhanite line that it has fundamentally changed who we are as well. There is little agreement, however, ... Read More »

November 4, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Dead North: The Exile Book of Canadian Zombie Fiction

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia, ed.

Here’s the inherent problem with zombies, from a literary perspective: they’re boring. Mindless, shambling husks devoid of language or reason, they exist as creatures of pure instinct, with only one driving force: chomping on the ... Read More »

October 28, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The n-Body Problem

By Tony Burgess

The title of Tony Burgess’s new novel refers to a question in classical mechanics: is it possible to predict the individual movements of a group of celestial objects that interact with one another gravitationally? Isaac ... Read More »

October 28, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival

By Giles Slade

The past decade’s catastrophic climate change events, from Superstorm Sandy to the return of 1930s-style dust storms across the American Midwest, are catalogued in this new book, which argues that a huge migration of environmental ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Heart of the Blackhawks: The Pierre Pilote Story

By L. Waxy Gregoire and David M. Dupuis with Pierre Pilote

Bobby Hull has often joked that he loved wearing the Chicago Blackhawks jersey because its distinctive crest looked a lot like Pierre Pilote’s face. Pilote, who played from 1955 to ’69, became one of the ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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