A Tale for the Time Being

In clever and deeply affecting ways, Ruth Ozeki’s luminous new novel explores notions of duality, causation, honour, and time. The protagonist of A Tale for the Time Being, also named Ruth, is a middle-aged writer ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Caught

By Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore, whose novel February won this year’s Canada Reads competition, has the ability to perfectly capture an emotional moment. At the outset of her third novel, Caught, David Slaney has escaped the prison that ... Read More »

June 17, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Empty Room

By Lauren B. Davis

Lauren B. Davis’s fourth novel tells the story of Colleen Kerrigan, a relatively unremarkable middle-aged secretary who is single and childless. Colleen is also a full-blown alcoholic. The novel takes place over a single day. ... Read More »

June 10, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Little Cat

By Tamara Faith Berger

Brought back into the world as a single-volume reprint, Little Cat offers “substantially revised” versions of Tamara Faith Berger’s first two novels: 1999’s Lie with Me and 2001’s The Way of the Whore. For all ... Read More »

June 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Matadora

By Elizabeth Ruth

What does it mean to be a woman? To be alive? In her audacious third novel, Elizabeth Ruth examines such grand, universal questions through an historically specific mise-en-scène. Set in the days before the Spanish ... Read More »

May 13, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society

By David Waltner-Toews

Shit – a mass-produced, quotidian product – is something that, for various cultural reasons, we don’t talk about much. For veterinarian and epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews, this is a mistake his new book aims to rectify. ... Read More »

May 6, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Travelling Light

By Peter Behrens

Most of this collection’s 23 short stories were published in Peter Behrens’ first book, 1987’s Night Driving; in an author’s note, Behrens says he revised “but tried to avoid rewriting” them. A cynic might suggest ... Read More »

April 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Bone and Bread

By Saleema Nawaz

Five years after Mother Superior, her breakthrough collection of short stories, Saleema Nawaz returns with a big and beautiful novel set in Montreal and Ottawa. While there’s much travelling in this book – through time ... Read More »

April 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Toronto Star Cookbook: More than 150 Diverse and Delicious Recipes Celebrating Ontario

By Jennifer Bain; Ryan Szulc, photog.

One of the overarching sentiments governing cooking these days is the idea that less is more, simple is better. Fancy food has become déclassé. There are challenges when packaging such recipes for today’s cookbook-buying public. ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Summers in Supino: Becoming Italian

By Maria Coletta McLean

It is impossible to approach a book entitled Summers in Supino: Becoming Italian without wary anticipation of the cloying pastoral scenes found in the likes of a Frances Mayes novel. Thankfully, the follow-up to Maria ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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