Reviews

★ Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal

With Odd Bits, Jennifer McLagan continues the peculiar carnivorous journey she began in her first two cookbooks, Bones and Fat (a Q&Q book of the year for 2009). Those earlier books – especially the second ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for Justice and Redemption in Africa

By Gary Geddes

Prolific B.C. author Gary Geddes, whose literary peregrinations have for decades landed him in countless war zones and sites of human misery, brings to his latest work of non-fiction the veteran traveller’s wise insights and ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000–2009

By Stan Persky

Reviewing Tony Judt’s Reappraisals, Capilano University philosophy professor and literary commentator Stan Persky remarks, “the book is strikingly more coherent and tightly argued than one might expect from a compilation of seemingly disparate essays.” It ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The End of the Line

By Stephen Legault

What good is a mounted policeman who can’t ride? As it turns out, in Stephen Legault’s tightly plotted mystery, quite good indeed. It’s 1883, and the Canadian Pacific Railway is trying to tame the Kicking ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Perfect Order of Things

By David Gilmour

Readers of David Gilmour’s novels – or even observers of the wildly divisive critical reactions they inspire – know that he is an autobiographical writer. The plots of his emotionally raw but acidly cerebral novels ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate, 1857–1868

By David A. Wilson

David Wilson may just be Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s biggest fan. In the second volume of his biography (following 2008’s Thomas D’Arcy McGee: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825–1857), Wilson shows how both McGee’s words and actions ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: History

Stories about Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others

By Douglas Gibson

If you have ever wondered about the personalities of some of this country’s most prolific authors, journalists, and power brokers, or hope to join the chattering classes, Douglas Gibson can help. The iconic Canadian publisher, ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Beauty Plus Pity

By Kevin Chong

Beauty Plus Pity, the second novel from Vancouver writer Kevin Chong, opens with the death of narrator Malcolm Kwan’s father, the departure of Malcolm’s girlfriend, and the reappearance of Malcolm’s estranged half-sister, Hadley. An aspiring ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Killing McGee

By David Helwig

A failed academic and closing in on 40, Lewis is an embittered husk of a man. At his Ottawa university, he is at the bottom of the academic hierarchy: an adjunct lecturer forced to live ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Happiness Economics

By Shari Lapeña

Art squares off against commerce in Shari Lapeña’s second novel, a funny yet earnest tale of a struggling poet’s attempts to find his muse. Will Thorne is suffering from a debilitating case of writer’s block ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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