A Man in Uniform

Parisian lawyer Dubon is a man of routine. He spends his days drafting wills, early evening is devoted to his mistress, and he’s home by 7:30 for dinner with his wife. This careful structure begins ... Read More »

July 26, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Still Missing

By Chevy Stevens

Annie O’Sullivan has good reason to complain during her regularly scheduled therapy sessions. But the thirtysomething’s revelations go far beyond Portnoy-style gripes. Where once her hometown, the tiny Vancouver Island hamlet of Clayton Falls, was ... Read More »

July 22, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Sword of My Mouth: A Post-Rapture Graphic Novel

By Jim Munroe; Shannon Gerard, illus.

With Sword of My Mouth, Jim Munroe returns to the post-Rapture dystopia he introduced in 2007’s Therefore, Repent! Working with illustrator Shannon Gerard (who takes over from Salgood Sam for this instalment), Munroe has created ... Read More »

July 12, 2010 | Filed under: Graphica

The Warhol Gang

By Peter Darbyshire

“Trotsky,” the code-named narrator of Peter Darbyshire’s sophomore novel, is a lot like the unnamed protagonist of Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel Fight Club. He’s urban, disgruntled, savvy, aimless, underpaid, and deeply skeptical of the corporate ... Read More »

June 28, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America

By Derek Lundy

The events of 9/11 changed the borderlands of the U.S. irrevocably. The longest undefended border in the world is disappearing, soon to be a memory. The Land of the Free is quickly becoming Fortress America, ... Read More »

June 14, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book

By Gord Hill

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, by First Nations artist and longtime political activist Gord Hill, promises a fresh approach to understanding what has happened to indigenous people in the Americas since 1492. But ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Graphica

Sonnets

By Camille Martin

As the no-nonsense title of Toronto-based Camille Martin’s second collection suggests, the book is made up entirely of 14-line poems, 101 in all – 53 fewer than Shakespeare, 24 more than Berrigan. The latter’s “baffling ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Cast from Bells

By Suzanne Hancock

Cast from Bells is Montreal-based poet Suzanne Hancock’s second collection. In it, she blends historical poems about bells – their forging, their transformation into weaponry, and the melting down of those weapons to cast them ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

C’mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark

By Ryan Knighton

The premise of this memoir is straightforward: blind man becomes a father. How will he handle this new stage in life, this new role, and the swaddling infant he can only see in the faint ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography

By Alexandra Popoff

The revival of interest in Sophia Tolstoy doesn’t begin or end with Michael Hoffman’s 2009 film The Last Station, in which Helen Mirren portrayed Leo Tolstoy’s wife and muse. A year earlier, for instance, Cathy ... Read More »