Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest

Playing guide to his readers, Edmonton author Rudy Wiebe leads us up into remote northern Saskatchewan to a predominantly Mennonite community called Speedwell, where his family took on the gruelling task of homesteading and farming ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Sorry, I Don’t Speak French: Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won’t Go Away

By Graham Fraser

In Grade 5 French immersion, for reasons I can’t remember, my classmates and I came into the possession of T-shirts bearing the slogan: “Je Parle Français, Sometimes.” These shirts, needless to say, were a hit. ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Cockeyed

By Ryan Knighton

Ryan Knighton began to lose his sight during his adolescence from retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that caused the scarring and decay of his retinas. The Vancouver writer, editor, and teacher is now virtually blind, ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Earth Alive: Essays on Ecology

By Stan Rowe; Don Kerr, ed.

The late Stan Rowe was one of those rare individuals in activist circles: a true character with a gentle sense of humour and long-term worldview that tempered the threat of rhetorical overkill. A pacifist jailed ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century

By Craig Taylor

The cult of pastoral life has long been part of the English identity. Ronald Blythe’s 1969 book Akenfield – a kind of lyrical ethnography of a Suffolk village, told in the voices of the villagers ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: History

The New City: How the Crisis of Canada’s Cities Is Reshaping Our Nation

By John Lorinc

Canada is often thought of as a country defined by its towering mountains, rolling plains, and shimmering lakes, but the fact is we’re an intensely urban nation – some 80% of Canucks currently reside in ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Story House

By Timothy Taylor

Timothy Taylor’s career has had an atypical trajectory so far. In 2000, he placed three short stories in the Journey Prize anthology, including that year’s winning tale. In 2001, his first novel, Stanley Park, hit ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tales of Two Cities

By George Fetherling

Desire, adultery, divorce, guilt, therapy – “A Tale of Two Cities,” the riskily titled novella that makes up the bulk of George Fetherling’s new book, covers ground made most familiar by Woody Allen films. A ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Work of Mercy

By Stephen Guppy

Stories of kids coping with broken homes are hard to pull off, not only because they’ve been told so often, but because they risk getting mired in the saccharine. But the nine stories in Stephen ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Scotch River

By Linda Little

Casper Hutt is a barely literate Alberta ranch hand and former professional bull rider whose life is changed by a piece of registered mail. He has been left the deed to some land in Scotch ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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