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Ray Robertson has experimented with recent history in his fiction, chronicling the waning of Kerouac and the Beat dream in What Happened Later and examining the kaleidoscope of the late 1960s country-hippie milieu in Moody ... Read More »

September 21, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea

By Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce, the prolific Nova Scotia author and publisher of Pottersfield Press, offers a meditation on life that focuses on the natural landscape around his home – a meditation prompted by an unidentified personal crisis. ... Read More »

September 14, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Day the Falls Stood Still

By Cathy Marie Buchanan

Cathy Marie Buchanan’s first novel has the wistful tone of a love letter, addressed to a place few people alive today ever knew: Niagara Falls in the years before it became a tacky tourist destination, ... Read More »

August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Generation A

By Douglas Coupland

Generation A, Douglas Coupland’s 11th novel, is a great bookend to Generation X, the novel that launched his career. The term “Generation A” was in fact coined by Kurt Vonnegut, but Coupland embraces it and ... Read More »

August 24, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bishop’s Man

By Linden MacIntyre

Father Duncan MacAskill is called The Exorcist. Not in the traditional sense, however: at his bishop’s bidding, he drives out devils of a different sort – priests who molest children. He does not banish the ... Read More »

August 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Papercut Heart: A Book of Zines

By Ian Sullivan Cant

Papercut Heart is a short volume containing nine poems, all of them charmingly illustrated by the author. Most of the text is handwritten, and the result is a pleasant little collection that tackles the usual ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Graphica

One

By Serge Patrice Thibodeau; Jo-Anne Elder, trans.

Serge Patrice Thibodeau’s Seul on est won the Governor General’s Award in 2007, an honour which no doubt helped it become one of the few books of contemporary French-Canadian poetry translated into English. Seul on ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

The Exile Book of Poems in Translation: 20 Canadian Poets Take on the World

By Priscila Uppal, ed.

If, as W.H. Auden once asserted, a writer’s only political duty is “to translate the fiction and poetry of other countries so as to make them available to readers in his own,” then, based on ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

East of Berlin

By Hannah Moscovitch

A chronicle of the tragic life of a Nazi war criminal’s son, East of Berlin – the Nazi euphemism for deporting Jews to death camps – raises questions about culpability for crimes against humanity. While ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The beerbistro Cookbook

By Stephen Beaumont and Brian Morin

Cooking with beer is often considered the domain of drunken bachelors who, in a flash of inspiration, dump a can of Guinness into their chili pot. Since 2003, however, restaurateur Stephen Beaumont and chef Brian ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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