Abode of Love: Growing Up in a Messianic Cult

Kate Barlow’s memoir is as full of secrets as Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, yet as cozy as an Enid Blyton story. Told largely from the point of view of Barlow as a bright ... Read More »

August 21, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Gargoyles

By Bill Gaston

The image of the gargoyle that presides over the 12 stories in this compelling and highly original collection by Giller-nominated author Bill Gaston is an apt one. The stony fixity of the gargoyle is akin ... Read More »

August 14, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Garneau Block

By Todd Babiak

Edmonton – we know what it isn’t, so what is it? It’s not Sin City, Fun City, Naked City, or the Motor City; it isn’t a city of gold, angels, or light. There’s the oil ... Read More »

August 8, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dead Cold

By Louise Penny

Louise Penny received a great deal of praise from some very impressive sources for her first novel, Still Life. After reading Dead Cold, her second effort, I can safely say that much more praise is ... Read More »

July 31, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Satanic Purses: Money, Myth, and Misinformation in the War on Terror

By R.T. Naylor

Five years into the War on Terror, it’s remarkable how few credible voices have questioned the operating assumptions of an enterprise that Pentagon generals ominously warn will carry on for the rest of our lives. ... Read More »

July 24, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hello … Hello: A Romantic Satire

By Karen Hines

With influences as diverse and seemingly mismatched as Greek tragedy and mid-century Hollywood musicals, Karen Hines’s latest satire is a bizarrely compelling work that may not be for all readers. A followup to Hines’s first ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ In a World Created by a Drunken God

By Drew Hayden Taylor

In his latest work, playwright Drew Hayden Taylor adheres to the dictates of classic, riveting theatre by presenting stellar characters struggling with hardcore moral questions, while inviting the audience to continue the dialogue after the ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Play Out the Match

By Michael Knox

Play Out the Match is one of the ballsiest debut collections in recent memory. Populated with barroom brawlers, strippers, dope-smokers, blue-collar workers, and bare-knuckle writers, these poems crackle with a masculine energy and a cocky ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Anatomy of Keys

By Steven Price

Anatomy of Keys is Victoria-based poet and teacher Steven Price’s first book. A poetic biography of Harry Houdini, its closest generic analogues in Canadian literature are Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Book of Longing

By Leonard Cohen

Much of Leonard Cohen’s work (and most of his life) has been characterized by a vacillation between two poles. Cohen has always embraced the dynamic tension between the opposing forces of the holy and the ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

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