No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart: The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice

Anyone who has tried to shepherd a child through the endless rows of toys in a department store with the proviso that only one item may be purchased knows the emotional devastation that an be ... Read More »

July 17, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Shadow of the Bear: Travels in Vanishing Wilderness

By Brian Payton

Vancouver nature writer and novelist Brian Payton returns to familiar ground with his new non-fiction title, Shadow of the Bear. Travelling to all corners of the planet where bears are found he delves into the ... Read More »

July 11, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Sea of Faith: Christianity and Islam in the Medieval Mediterranean World

By Stephen O’Shea

Having introduced the general reader to the Albigensian Crusade in The Perfect Heresy, journalist and historian Stephen O’Shea now expands his vision to encompass the history of the first thousand years of two of the ... Read More »

July 11, 2006 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Home of Sudden Service

By Elizabeth Bachinsky

It’s rare to encounter a book of poetry that so nimbly balances accessibility and craft as this second collection by Elizabeth Bachinsky. Drawing on apparently vast reserves of hipster angst, Bachinsky portrays the struggles of ... Read More »

July 10, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Way Out There: The Best of explore

By James Little, ed.

The outdoor adventure community in Canada (if those who enjoy traipsing through our country’s solitudes can really be called a community) is small; the community of those who write about such adventures is even smaller. ... Read More »

July 5, 2006 | Filed under: Reference

Invisible Armies

By Jon Evans

Jon Evans’ previous two novels featured travellers who had an amazing ability to get themselves into all sorts of trouble while we watched them run for their lives and outsmart their attackers. Evans has a ... Read More »

June 26, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Miss Lamp

By Chris Ewart

There is no enduring tradition of experimental fiction in Canada. Despite the perennial appearance of Leonard Cohen’s second novel, Beautiful Losers, on university English literature syllabuses, and despite the heroic efforts of a small handful ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Perfect Circle

By Pascale Quiviger; Sheila Fischman, trans.

“Happiness asks to move along with life, it requires that perfect circles be broken.” So ends Pascale Quiviger’s first novel, The Perfect Circle. Marianne, Quiviger’s main character, takes a chance on love, aspiring to insinuate ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Unfortunate Marriage of Azeb Yitades

By Nega Mezlekia

The publicity bumph for Ethiopian-born Nega Mezlekia’s second novel places him in the company of Gabriel García Márquez and Ben Okri, among others. I would add one more: Rohinton Mistry. Like Mistry, Mezlekia writes in ... Read More »

June 13, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory

By Linda Spalding

Linda Spalding’s new book is a genre-bending examination of her relationship with convict Maryann Acker, whose role in two murders rocked Hawaii in the late 1970s. What makes the story remarkable is that Spalding herself ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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