Zero Patience: A Queer Film Classic

For a long time gays and lesbians were acceptable in literature and film only so long as they were evil, tragic, or doomed. That’s the conclusion held by many queer scholars, like Vito Russo, author ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Lake on the Mountain

By Jeffrey Round

Jeffrey Round’s sixth novel can’t quite decide what it wants to be. It is alternately a lyrical evocation of one of Ontario’s strangest phenomena, Prince Edward County’s elevated lake, which never runs dry despite lacking ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Next One to Fall

By Hilary Davidson

Following the death of her addict sister, Lily Moore is in Peru for a working holiday. Like her creator, Toronto-born author Hilary Davidson, Lily is a travel writer, and that background pays off in Davidson’s ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Wild Beasts of Wuhan

By Ian Hamilton

In The Water Rat of Wanchai, the first book in Ian Hamilton’s detective series, forensic accountant and martial arts expert Ava Lee tackled the unscrupulous practices of the international seafood industry. In the follow-up, The ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Boston Cream

By Howard Shrier

In the acknowledgments for Boston Cream, Howard Shrier writes that he reread all the novels of Dennis Lehane, the early novels in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series, and other old favourites “to deepen my sense ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Tumblin’ Dice

By John McFetridge

In his fourth novel, Toronto author John McFetridge returns to the gritty streets of his home city, and fans of his previous books won’t be disappointed. A has-been rock ’n’ roll band called the High ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Titanic Ashes

By Paul Butler

Acclaimed St. John’s novelist Paul Butler explores class tension and culpability in this short novel, which takes place in 1925, 13 years after the Titanic disaster. Butler employs a psychological approach to imagine how the ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

RMS Titanic: Gilded Lives on a Fatal Voyage

By Hugh Brewster

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking, best-selling historian Hugh Brewster has produced a book that provides new research on the lives of both the victims and survivors of the world’s ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Nina, the Bandit Queen

By Joey Slinger

The humour that kept Joey Slinger employed as a columnist at the Toronto Star for nearly 30 years is on display throughout his second novel. Regrettably missing, however, is the discipline of a novelist; struggle ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Matter of Life and Death or Something

By Ben Stephenson

Halifax author and artist Ben Stephenson, whose short stories have been published in The Coast and elsewhere, branches out with a debut novel. Featuring some of Stephenson’s own artwork, A Matter of Life and Death ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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