Reviews

The Occupied Garden: Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-torn Netherlands

By Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski

As the chasm widens between the current generation of parents that protects its children against every germ, scrape, or slight, and the generation preceding it, born into a world at war, this memoir is a ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Sealed Letter

By Emma Donoghue

In 1864, divorce was still rare in Britain (as elsewhere), and the real one that Emma Donoghue forensically reconstructs in her new novel was a national scandal. The wronged vice-admiral Henry Codrington and his sexually ... Read More »

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

My White Planet

By Mark Anthony Jarman

Mark Anthony Jarman’s new collection of stories is something of a rarity in Canadian short fiction. It does not follow the tried-and-true template of the traditional Chekhovian story, which prizes naturalism and a familiar narrative ... Read More »

March 17, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Sugar: A Bittersweet History

By Elizabeth Abbott

Everyone knows too much sugar is bad for you. But after reading Elizabeth Abbott’s brilliant and assiduously researched Sugar, the truth of exactly how bad will become clear. Abbott takes a spoonful of sugar and ... Read More »

March 3, 2008 | Filed under: History

Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting

By Carl Honore

With Under Pressure, Carl Honoré, author of In Praise of Slow, aims his sights on the youngest members of society. Using research studies and hundreds of interviews, he has pulled together a comprehensive look at ... Read More »

February 25, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Boys in the Trees

By Mary Swan

It’s a common criticism of Canadian fiction that many of our authors produce bleak and depressing books. Mary Swan fits this rather unflattering profile, but in her case, it works. Her first novel, The Boys ... Read More »

February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

By Gabor Maté

Gabor Maté’s latest book is a sprawling but fascinating look at addiction that is part science, part diatribe, part character study, and part confessional. Maté, a physician at the Portland Clinic in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Prognosis: The Current State and Shaky Future of Canada’s Health System

By John Lawrence Reynolds

Talking about health care is as Canadian a pastime as watching hockey. That’s the argument made by John Lawrence Reynolds in his introduction to Prognosis. A mystery novelist and non-fiction author, Reynolds writes not as ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Falling

By Anne Simpson

From the very first sentence of Falling, award-winning poet Anne Simpson’s second novel, it’s clear that this will be a story about grief and the constrained living that goes on around it. On the first ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Morning Gothic: New and Selected Poems

By George Ellenbogen

George Ellenbogen, a longtime resident of the U.S., is one of those rare Canadian poets better known abroad than at home. Morning Gothic, his selection of new and previously published work, shows just how arbitrary ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

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