Sundre

Christopher Willard’s second novel is a significant departure from his 2005 fiction debut. Whereas Garbage Head satirized celebrity culture, telecommunications, and the absurdities of postmodernity, Sundre deals in shotguns, combines, and pick-up trucks. Composed of ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Last Night in Montreal

By Emily St. John Mandel

Newton’s second law of thermodynamics – all systems tend toward entropy – governs the characters in Emily St. John Mandel’s debut novel. They tumble into one another’s orbits, toil over dead languages, and fret over ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

By Robert Charles Wilson

On the list of attributes possessed by the Hugo Award- and Nebula Award-winning Robert Charles Wilson, there is one in particular that bears mention: his solid grasp of the zeitgeist. There are two great traditions ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Boldface Names

By Shinan Govani

National Post gossip columnist Shinan Govani follows the time-honoured advice “write what you know” in his fiction debut, a novel that traces the adventures of a Toronto-based gossip columnist (he prefers the designation “social archivist”) ... Read More »

August 10, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Truth and Other Fictions

By Eva Tihanyi

In her first collection of short stories, Eva Tihanyi aims to reveal some truths about women’s lives. The 13 stories in the collection are written in highly intimate and often ironic prose, and many involve ... Read More »

July 27, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Goya’s Dog

By Damian Tarnopolsky

Celebrated English abstract painter and writer Wyndham Lewis once described Second World War Toronto as a “sanctimonious icebox.” In the acknowledgements for Goya’s Dog, Damian Tarnopolsky cites Lewis as an inspiration for his first novel. ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Wife’s Tale

By Lori Lansens

In their introduction to The Oprah Affect, a collection of essays that analyze the impact of Oprah’s Book Club on popular and literary culture, editors Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr argue there’s nothing new ... Read More »

July 6, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

God of Missed Connections

By Elizabeth Bachinsky

In the press material that accompanies Elizabeth Bachinsky’s third poetry collection, Bachinsky expresses her desire to “capture the sense of what it feels like to not know where you’re from, to be looking for connections, ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Blue Thunder: The Truth About Conservatives from Macdonald to Harper

By Bob Plamondon

Conservative Party insider Bob Plamondon’s new book, Blue Thunder, promises to tell “the truth” about all the leaders throughout the Tories’ various incarnations. The truth, according to Plamondon, is that party leaders who managed to ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia

By Jasmin Hristov

During a controversial July 2007 trip to Colombia, Prime Minister Stephen Harper bluntly stated that human rights concerns could not get in the way of trade relations with that country. Since last year’s Canada-Colombia Free ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: History

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Sundre

Last Night in Montreal

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

Boldface Names

Truth and Other Fictions

Goya’s Dog

The Wife’s Tale

God of Missed Connections

Blue Thunder: The Truth About Conservatives from Macdonald to Harper

Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia

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