Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination

Eight years on, with a new American administration in place, we can – and should – reconsider the events surrounding Sept. 11, 2001, argues Karen Engle in this timely analysis of 9/11’s commemorative artworks and ... Read More »

April 20, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Amphibian

By Carla Gunn

Phin Walsh, the nine-year-old narrator of Carla Gunn’s debut novel, is the kind of kid who could only be described as “sensitive.” Hours spent watching documentaries on the Green Channel have left him better informed ... Read More »

March 30, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fall

By Colin McAdam

The “Fall” in the title of this finely crafted thriller is Fallon DeStindt, a student at an exclusive Ottawa-area boarding school who mysteriously disappears halfway through the book. Two people who seem to be implicated ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gun Dogs

By James Langer

For a first book, Gun Dogs is assured and mature, clearly the product of a lengthy and well-spent apprenticeship. James Langer is one of several Canadian poets, including Steven Price, Matt Rader, and Joe Denham, ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry

By Mona Fertig and Harold Rhenisch, eds.

Rocksalt, “the first anthology of British Columbia poetry since 1977,” as it’s billed in co-editor Harold Rhenisch’s introductory remarks, includes the work of 108 contemporary Canadian poets who lay some claim to being from our ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Dante’s War

By Sandra Sabatini

In Dante’s War, Sandra Sabatini portrays fascist Italy through the lives of two young Italians: Dante becomes a soldier in the Second World War, while Angelina works on her family’s farm in a rural village. ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wake

By Robert J. Sawyer

Admirers of his previous fiction might be forgiven for feeling that, with his new novel Wake (the first in his much-ballyhooed new contract with Penguin Canada), Toronto science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer has turned an ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Diary of Interrupted Days

By Dragan Todorovic

On April 22, 1999, one month into the NATO offensive against Serbia, Boris Bulie stands on the last barely functioning bridge over the Danube into Belgrade, watching bombs fall on the city he used to ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Hands of Anubis

By Ann Eriksson

The people we meet while travelling often have an enormous effect on our lives. Ann Eriksson’s second novel, In the Hands of Anubis, testifies to this fact. Travelling to Africa, Calgarian Trevor Wallace encounters Constance ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Absent

By Sherri Vanderveen

Otto Sinclair has tried to do the right thing all his life. But under the weight of his mother’s strict rules and, later, his stultifying marriage, he can’t figure out how to lead a “normal” ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination

★ Amphibian

Fall

Gun Dogs

Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry

Dante’s War

Wake

★ Diary of Interrupted Days

In the Hands of Anubis

Absent

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