Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism

Like many things around us, the free-market system is a mechanism we blithely ignore until something goes wrong with it. So it’s no surprise that the recent economic downturn has also seen a rise in ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Listening

By Margaret Avison

It’s been almost two years since Margaret Avison, one of Canada’s most significant poets, died. Now that her “last poems” have been published, we can stop wondering what she left on her desk. Books of ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Oryx and Crake

By Margaret Atwood

When word got around that Margaret Atwood’s 11th novel was going to be a work of speculative fiction‚ her readers probably hoped for the best but feared the worst. The best would be a revisiting ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying

By Wayson Choy

The new memoir by celebrated novelist Wayson Choy chronicles not one, but two near-death experiences. Employing a spare, restrained approach, Choy depicts a dramatic series of events through an unexpectedly tranquil filter, highlighting themes of ... Read More »

March 9, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Kahn & Engelmann

By Hans Eichner; Jean M. Snook, trans.

An emeritus professor of German romantic literature living in Rockwood, Ontario, Hans Eichner published this, his first novel, at the tender age of 79, then had to wait almost a decade after its critical and ... Read More »

February 23, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hooked

By Carolyn Smart

In The World’s Wife, contemporary Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy created feminist subversions of a male-centric tradition by giving voice to the wives of significant male figures, both fictional and actual. Carolyn Smart attempts something ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

The Second Blush

By Molly Peacock

Few contemporary poets have achieved the feat that Molly Peacock has: to attract a base of readers who would not ordinarily read poetry. With her first five collections, she has managed to span the gap ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

As affecting the fate of my absent husband: Selected Letters of Lady Franklin Concerning the Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition, 1848-1860

By Erika Behrisch Elce, ed.

Anyone interested in the history of Arctic exploration cannot fail to be drawn into the story of Sir John Franklin. With the fate of his last expedition unknown for over a decade, people around the ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: History

Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives It Ruled

By John DeMont

The way things are going these days, the market for books about declining industries may soon be a robust one. But before anyone drafts a pitch for a book on Southern Ontario’s vanishing automobile sector, ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: History

My Two Polish Grandfathers and Other Essays on the Imaginative Life

By Witold Rybczynski

In this lurid era, when the majority of memoirs seem to be written by tweakers, dopers, dipsomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, or nymphomaniacs, it is indeed a relief to encounter the reminiscences of a diligent and industrious man ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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