Effigy

Effigy is inspired in part by a terrible footnote in the history of the West: the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah in 1857, in which a group of Mormons and Pauites massacred a party of ... Read More »

March 26, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Was She Pretty?

By Leanne Shapton

Leanne Shapton’s newest book of illustrations is all about The Ex. In it, the Toronto-born, New York-based artist and writer introduces us to people like June, whose ex-boyfriend “kept his love letters in a kitchen ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Bang Crunch

By Neil Smith

There is a school of writing – let’s call it the Dave Eggers school – that prizes cleverness above all other attributes. Not wit, mind you, but cleverness. The kind of cleverness that has an ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Helpless

By Barbara Gowdy

Like much of Barbara Gowdy’s previous work, Helpless is a love story. It is far from a straightforward one, however. Instead, Gowdy takes readers into the world of a child-abducting pedophile. We watch Ron, an ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

King John of Canada

By Scott Gardiner

A common complaint about CanLit – one that Scott Gardiner addresses in the course of his new novel, King John of Canada – is that Canada’s fiction writers seem completely uninterested in dealing with the ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Deserter’s Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq

By Joshua Key with Lawrence Hill

Orwell wrote, “Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Volunteer: A Canadian’s Secret Life in the Mossad

By Michael Ross with Jonathan Kay

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The End of East

By Jen Sookfong Lee

This debut novel by Jen Sookfong Lee offers an eloquent yet predictable look at the multigenerational experiences of a Chinese-Canadian family in Vancouver. While the prose is raw and the creative energy evident, Lee’s novel ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Adam’s Peak

By Heather Burt

Two families live side by side in a middle-class Montreal neighbourhood: the Frasers, who emigrated from Scotland in the 1960s, and the Vantwests, who left life on a tea plantation in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bad Bridesmaid: Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums – What We Go Through For Her Big Day

By Siri Agrell

Full disclosure: this reviewer is not married, nor is she engaged. Her Mr. Wonderful took one look at her weekend reading – i.e., these two books – and wisely retreated to his study. She has ... Read More »

March 21, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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