


Multi-million-dollar inheritances, credit-card-carrying kids, and $10,000 birthday parties for eight-year-olds: welcome to the world of the Lucky Sperm Club. The only way to be admitted to this exclusive group is to be born to insanely ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Multi-million-dollar inheritances, credit-card-carrying kids, and $10,000 birthday parties for eight-year-olds: welcome to the world of the Lucky Sperm Club. The only way to be admitted to this exclusive group is to be born to insanely ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Altruism, self-sacrifice, and the self-serving nature of magnanimity lie at the core of Toronto author Cynthia Holz’s fourth novel. The book examines the lives of 53-year-old Ben Wasserman, a psychiatrist who analyzes the mental states ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In this collection of linked short stories, Montreal author Claude Lalumière imagines a used bookstore, Lost Pages, that exists somewhere in an alternate-reality version of his hometown. (It seems to have no fixed address, and ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Popular YA author Susan Juby takes a very, very small step into adult fiction with this simple, good-natured story of a young woman who leaves the big city to run a Vancouver Island farm. Four ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

YouTube has the ability to bring fame to average Joes, but in Pascal Girard’s third graphic novel, that’s not necessarily a good thing. Bigfoot is the story of a teenaged boy named Jimmy, whose problems ... Read More »
May 9, 2011 | Filed under: Graphica

YouTube has the ability to bring fame to average Joes, but in Pascal Girard’s third graphic novel, that’s not necessarily a good thing. Bigfoot is the story of a teenaged boy named Jimmy, whose problems ... Read More »
May 9, 2011 | Filed under: Graphica

Ken Babstock sprinkled a few of the poems collected in Methodist Hatchet in journals across Canada. These poems were alternately baffling and amazing, and many of them contained aphorisms that will be mined – rightly, ... Read More »
May 9, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Only the most intransigent heart will be unmoved by Andrew Westoll’s account of his time spent volunteering at Quebec’s Fauna Sanctuary, a refuge for chimpanzees that have been “retired” from biomedical research. In Westoll’s hands, ... Read More »
April 27, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment