Sea Sick: The Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean

We call this planet “Earth,” although water covers about 75% of its surface. This discrepancy has undoubtedly influenced the way we have historically regarded the world’s oceans: as seemingly endless dumping grounds and inexhaustible sources ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Kaspar

By Diane Obomsawin

If Kaspar Hauser hadn’t actually lived, someone would have made him up. Discovered on the streets of Nuremberg in 1828 by German authorities, the enigmatic teenage foundling quickly became a sensation across Europe, capturing the ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Graphica

Baloney: A Tale in Three Symphonic Acts

By Pascal Blanchet

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Graphica

The Gift from Berlin

By Lucette ter Borg; Liedewy Hawke, trans.

Memory, war, loss, and forgiveness: these are the features of award-winning novels. The Gift from Berlin, winner of the 2005 National Dutch Debut Prize, attempts to cram all of them between its covers. The novel ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Berlin

By Michael Mirolla

Berlin, from Toronto writer Michael Mirolla, is an ambitious novel concerned with, among many other things, the nature of identity, the weight of history, the significance of catastrophe, and the legacies of both fascism and ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!

By Jonathan Goldstein

The title pretty much says it all. Jonathan Goldstein, broadcaster and author of the ReLit Award-winning Lenny Bruce Is Dead, has gone beyond all previous translations of the Bible by taking all of the Good ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Colour of Lightning

By Paulette Jiles

The Colour of Lightning opens with Britt Johnson, a freed slave (and an actual historical figure), travelling from Kentucky to north Texas with his family in the waning days of the American Civil War. There ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Depth of Field

By Michael Blair

Thomas McCall may be a commercial photographer on Granville Island, but his third series appearance opens with classic P.I. lingo – “The fog outside my window was so thick you could scoop it up with ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Winter Vault

By Anne Michaels

One of the early albums by the 1980s new wave band Talking Heads is More Songs About Buildings and Food. If the titans of Canadian fiction issued a similarly titled collection of work, it would ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Advice for Italian Boys

By Anne Giardini

Former National Post columnist (and daughter of beloved CanLit icon Carol Shields) Anne Giardini has hit her stride with her second novel. While her debut, The Sad Truth About Happiness, may have been praised, it ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Sea Sick: The Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean

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Baloney: A Tale in Three Symphonic Acts

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Berlin

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!

The Colour of Lightning

Depth of Field

The Winter Vault

Advice for Italian Boys

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