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★ The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos

Neil Turok, a South African–born theoretical physicist, is the executive director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and one of the winners of the 2008 TED Prize, which he received in part for helping ... Read More »

October 1, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Carnival

By Rawi Hage

At about the halfway point in Rawi Hage’s new novel, a taxi driver named Fly offers a ride to a stripper named Sally. After getting into the cab, Sally spots a copy of Jean Genet’s ... Read More »

September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Purchase

By Linda Spalding

The past sometimes seems like a beautiful place, but it is a damn good thing we don’t live there anymore. Linda Spalding’s new novel begins in Pennsylvania in 1798, when Daniel Dickinson and his young ... Read More »

September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Deception of Livvy Higgs

By Donna Morrissey

A main theme of Donna Morrissey’s fifth novel is the fine line between secrets and lies. Every character has something to hide, whether out of malice, greed, or simply self-preservation and privacy. The pattern of ... Read More »

September 17, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Essential Tom Marshall

By Tom Marshall; David Helwig and Michael Ondaatje, eds.

Everyone likes to believe that the best poetry will endure,” write David Helwig and Michael Ondaatje in the introduction to this lovingly edited collection, the ninth in The Porcupine’s Quill Essential Poets series, “but it ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

Rob Feenie’s Casual Classics: Everyday Recipes for Family and Friends

By Rob Feenie

Rob Feenie is the most recent celebrity chef aiming to cash in on the home-cooking craze that began in 2008, when the world economy cratered and cookbook marketers saw dollar signs as people tightened their ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand’s Tales of the B.C. Coast

By Sylvia Taylor

In 1981, before overfishing and over-regulation decimated the commercial salmon industry, Vancouver native Sylvia Taylor was employed as a rookie deckhand on a troller off the coast of B.C. Taylor, who was in her twenties, ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell

By Katherine Monk

In her acknowledgments, Katherine Monk thanks “every writer who’s ever written anything about Joni Mitchell,” without whom “this book would not have been possible.” She means this literally. Her new biography of the iconic Canadian ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Karsh: Beyond the Camera

By Yousuf Karsh; David Travis, ed.

Many wonderful books have been published about the iconic portraits of famed Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh. The latest is this small-format softcover, thoughtfully compiled by David Travis, former curator of photography at the Art Institute ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude

By Andrew Nikiforuk

Andrew Nikiforuk has written extensively on the oil industry; he won the 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil. With his new book, Nikiforuk adds a robustly researched and ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs