★ The Colour of Justice: Policing Race in Canada

Over the past few decades, the popular lexicon describing police behaviour has expanded to include a number of unique, though unofficial, arrestable offences, including Driving While Black (DWB) and Travelling While Arab (TWA). Officially, such ... Read More »

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

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

By Bernice Eisenstein

Bernice Eisenstein grew up in Toronto as a self-confessed addict of the Holocaust. In her parents’ basement rec room, as her family viewed the Adolf Eichmann trial on television, she sensed the Holocaust’s power in ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Madame Zee

By Pearl Luke

The real-life story of the mysterious Madame Zee receives an intriguing treatment in this novel by Pearl Luke. What is curious is that the fictionalized details are almost more compelling than the actual facts, which ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

jPod

By Douglas Coupland

Like its 1995 predecessor, Microserfs, Douglas Coupland’s latest foray into the annals of extreme contemporaneousness delves into the world of a group of young programmers, this time substituting a Vancouver-based video-game design company for Microsoft. ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Widdershins

By Charles de Lint

With Widdershins, Ottawa writer Charles de Lint returns to the fictional city of Newford for what may be a world-altering showdown between the ancient North American immortals and spirits – based on First Nations tradition ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Uninvited Guest

By John Degen

When his old pal Stan dies, Tony inherits his summer job of escorting hockey’s greatest trophy on its worldwide engagements, never letting the Stanley Cup out of his sight. One such assignment takes him to ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Over Prairie Trails

By Frederick Philip Grove

If, as Northrop Frye has suggested, the Canadian character has largely been shaped by the vast distances that separate us and by our almost stubborn efforts to stay together across those distances, then Frederick Philip ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Song of Kahunsha

By Anosh Irani

Anosh Irani’s second novel, The Song of Kahunsha, is the heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful story of a young orphan living on the streets of Bombay. The book is set amidst the racial rioting of 1993, ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Vices of My Blood

By Maureen Jennings

Maureen Jennings’ new novel, Vices of My Blood, picks up where her previous William Murdoch mystery left off. Only two months have passed since the end of Night’s Child, when Murdoch’s lover, Enid Jones, left ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea

By Pan Bouyoucas

"The bridge between the world of the dead and the world of the living is the sleeper’s mind," Pan Bouyoucas writes at the beginning of his novel The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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