Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order

Due to the nature of science itself, scientific truth is always provisional. And beauty, so the saying goes, is in the eye of the beholder. Given these shifting sands, physicist David Orrell has taken on ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Trobairitz

By Catherine Owen

Poetry and metal collide in the latest offering from prolific Vancouver author and musician Catherine Owen. Here, Owen’s voice sounds off like a wolf in a winter forest: it seems lone and foreboding, but its ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Lazy Bastardism: Essays and Reviews on Contemporary Poetry

By Carmine Starnino

Lazy Bastardism is an anthology of essays on poetry that date from 2004 to early 2012. The writing is consistently strong in every respect: well-crafted prose glimmering with insight, brimming with rhetoric. Lazy Bastardism is ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada’s World Wars

By Tim Cook

The word “warlord” conjures a charismatic, steely-eyed potentate ruthlessly applying military violence to advance his agenda. It is hard to square the label with the image of a Canadian prime minister, even the two who ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: History

Nicolai’s Daughters

By Stella Leventoyannis Harvey

Stella Leventoyannis Harvey, a founding member of the Whistler Writers Group, discovered inspiration for her first novel while visiting a monument to the Nazi massacre of 696 Greek men and boys in the Achaean region ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Love and the Mess We’re In

By Stephen Marche

Toronto author Stephen Marche’s yen for formal experimentation and elaborate wordplay are on florid display in his new novel. Behind the book’s typographical flourishes lies a compact consideration of love lost and found that might ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake

By Dany Laferrière; David Homel, trans.

On Jan. 12, 2010, Montreal journalist and novelist Dany Laferrière was having dinner with a friend at a Port au Prince hotel when he heard what he thought was a “terrible explosion.” What he actually ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Thunder Road

By Chadwick Ginther

The debut novel from Winnipeg writer and bookseller (and frequent Q&Q reviewer) Chadwick Ginther starts with a bang – literally. A cataclysmic explosion at a facility in the Alberta oil sands leaves hundreds dead and ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Crimes of Hector Tomás

By Ian Colford

As a novelist, Ian Colford is a great short-story writer. The author of the 2008 story collection Evidence, which was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award and won the Margaret and John Savage First Book ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The House on Sugarbush Road

By Meira Cook

Winnipeg poet Méira Cook’s debut novel focuses on South Africa’s volatile post-apartheid climate through the stories of two fatefully intertwined families: the wealthy but failing Du Plessis clan, represented by Dr. Benjamin Du Plessis, and ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order

Trobairitz

Lazy Bastardism: Essays and Reviews on Contemporary Poetry

Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada’s World Wars

Nicolai’s Daughters

Love and the Mess We’re In

The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake

Thunder Road

The Crimes of Hector Tomás

★ The House on Sugarbush Road

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