Pride of Baghdad

Virgil’s Aeneid famously sang of arms and the man. Pride of Baghdad, a collaboration between California author Brian K. Vaughan and Quebec City illustrator Niko Henrichon, sings just as passionately of arms and the mane.The ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Graphica

Zero Gravity

By Sharon English

Zero Gravity is Sharon English’s second book of short stories. Unlike those of English’s 2002 debut, Uncomfortably Numb, these stories are not interconnected via a narrator, though there is a pervasive theme to the collection ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Moral Disorder

By Margaret Atwood

Unwary readers attempting to read Moral Disorder as a novel – an easy mistake given the lack of direction on the cover – do so at their own peril. Diligent readers who look at the ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Dead Man’s Float

By Nicholas Maes

The post-Holocaust novel or memoir has been with us for 60 years now, and like many serious cultural artifacts, it shapeshifts with the times. Dead Man’s Float, by Nicholas Maes, joins this sombre parade and ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent

By Rodrigo Bascunan, Christian Pearce

Toronto’s “summer of the gun” has come and gone, and with it much of the public debate about guns, their place in polite Canadian society, and ways to get them off the streets.Rodrigo Bascunan and ... Read More »

January 22, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Big Man Coming Down the Road

By Brad Smith

The new novel from Brad Smith is the kind of fast-paced, plot-rich book that begs to be called, in all earnestness, a rollicking good time. In fact, it captures the excitement of its characters’ lives ... Read More »

January 15, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bow Grip

By Ivan E. Coyote

There are many reasons why stories told from the perspective of teens and early twentysomethings can falter in the eyes of older readers. When you’re young, life is full of superlatives, everything seems exciting and ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

God of the Plains

By Gail Robinson

The press release for Gail Robinson’s God of the Plains says that its main character is Emma, a girl born in Saskatchewan in the 1930s. That isn’t true, and therein lies both the strength and ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Daaku

By Ranj Dhaliwal

Daaku (Punjabi for “outlaw”) is the ultra-violent, profanity-laced account of the life of Rupinder (“Ruby”) Singh Pandher, the second of five children of a devoted mother and abusive father. Like Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Three Nights in Havana: Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro and the Cold War World

By Robert Wright

It is either a coincidence or a quirk of the zeitgeist that two of the best recent books of popular history deal with issues of diplomacy between the West and the communist world in the ... Read More »

January 2, 2007 | Filed under: History

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Pride of Baghdad

Zero Gravity

Moral Disorder

Dead Man’s Float

Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent

Big Man Coming Down the Road

Bow Grip

God of the Plains

Daaku

★ Three Nights in Havana: Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro and the Cold War World

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