Me, Chi and Bruce Lee

Brian Preston is a writer, not a fighter. So when he was asked to do a book about martial arts, he blanched. But not for long.A self-declared “wimpy, forty-something wuss,” Preston decided to spend a ... Read More »

July 23, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Going Around with Bachelors

By Agnes Walsh

St. John’s poet laureate Agnes Walsh is also an actor, a playwright, and a storyteller. Appropriately for an author with such a background, her second collection is accompanied by a CD. The disc was not ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Making Bones Walk

By Alex Boyd

Making Bones Walk is the first full-length collection for Toronto poet Alex Boyd. It’s a promising debut, solid, trim, and occasionally arresting (especially “Twenty Three Minutes for Everything,” the one standout poem in the book), ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

High Speed Through Shoaling Water

By Tom Wayman

Political proselytizing has been something of a vocation for Calgary-based writer and teacher Tom Wayman since the publication of his first book in 1973. In High Speed Through Shoaling Water, his 17th collection, Wayman cleaves ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Black River

By Kenneth Sherman

If Wayman is a verbal spendthrift, Toronto poet and professor Kenneth Sherman, in his 11th book, errs on the side of laconic sparseness. Black River is one long poem, a suite in 60 parts about ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs

By Fred Herzog

This volume accompanies the first major retrospective of photographer Fred Herzog, as assembled by the Vancouver Art Gallery. Arriving in Vancouver in 1953, Herzog captured, in a uniquely colourful style, the buzz and energy of ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Reflections on Islam: Ideas, Opinions, Arguments

By George Jonas

Reflections on Islam mostly comprises more than four dozen columns about Islam and terrorism written by author and National Post columnist George Jonas between 2001 and 2006. The new material – a postscript and an ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Canada in Afghanistan: The War so Far

By Peter Pigott

In his preface to Canada in Afghanistan, the U.K.-born, India-raised Peter Pigott, known mostly for his books on aviation, declares that “Kipling has always been a favourite writer of mine. In fact, I can still ... Read More »

July 12, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity

By David Solway

A good polemic challenges and enlightens readers, but shouldn’t leave them with a headache. David Solway’s The Big Lie requires extra-strength Aspirin. Over-written and overwrought, Solway’s book is both reminiscent of 1950s Red Scare screeds ... Read More »

July 12, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor: The First Woman Settler on the Miramichi

By Sally Armstrong

In The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor, award-winning journalist Sally Armstrong paints a vivid picture of her great-great-great-grandmother, who survived the deaths of three husbands and one lover, and subsequently raised 10 children in the ... Read More »

July 12, 2007 | Filed under: History

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