One Story, One Song

“Hopelessness is isotropic,” writes Richard Wagamese in his new collection of personal essays, “the view in every direction is the same. That’s the nut of it. It’s hard to change when everything you see looks ... Read More »

February 22, 2011 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Bride of New France

By Suzanne Desrochers

In the 17th century, hundreds of girls and women were sent from France – often against their will – to populate the New World. But little is known of these filles du roi, as they ... Read More »

February 17, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Beggar’s Garden

By Michael Christie

Michael Christie’s debut collection of nine linked stories is dazzling. Drawing on his experience working in a homeless shelter in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Christie explores the intense humanity of people living on the margins of ... Read More »

February 7, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

An Open Door in the Landscape

By Elisabeth Harvor

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award–winning poet and novelist Elisabeth Harvor’s third poetry collection could be loosely described as a book of coming of age poems. Much of it parses childhood for moments of suddenly earned wisdom ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Blood, Sweat and Tears

By David Clayton-Thomas

As the former frontman for the Canadian rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears, David Clayton-Thomas is no stranger to the spotlight. He has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and been given ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Where We Might Have Been

By Don Coles

Where We Might Have Been is Don Coles’s 10th collection of poetry. It follows the 2000 collection Kurgan, which won the Trillium Book Award, and marks the climax of a singular reign as one of ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Robert Latimer: A Story of Justice and Mercy

By Gary Bauslaugh

Saskatchewan wheat farmer Robert Latimer, the man at the centre of Canada’s most contentious euthanasia trial, is given an extremely sympathetic treatment in this new study. A passionate advocate for more permissive end-of-life legislation, author ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Eddie Shore and That Old-Time Hockey

By C. Michael Hiam

For hockey fans who consider the game of yore to have been less prone to cheap shots and hooliganism and more gentlemanly than today’s version, C. Michael Hiam’s new biography of Saskatchewan-born bruiser Eddie Shore ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Crawling from the Wreckage

By Gwynne Dyer

Gwynne Dyer is the author of books with titles like Future: Tense and The Mess They Made, so it comes as a surprise to open his new volume and read that, in 2010, the author’s ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: History

Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction

By Ray Moynihan and Barbara Mintzes

“It is to be hoped that human sexual inadequacy … will be rendered obsolete in the next decade.” This lofty expectation, from the introduction to Masters and Johnson’s 1970 book Human Sexual Inadequacy, reveals both ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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