A Nut at the Opera

Graphic artist Maurice Vellekoop, a contributor to just about every major North American magazine in the last two decades, describes his latest book-length work as a tribute to his late mentor and friend, Paul Baker, ... Read More »

May 8, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Piano, Piano, Pieno: Slow Food from a Tuscan Farm

By Susan McKenna Grant

The unusual title of Susan McKenna Grant’s new cookbook, Piano, Piano, Pieno, translates from the Italian as “Slowly, Slowly, Full.” It is a reference to Slow Food, a movement begun in Italy in 1986 aimed ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Mean Boy

By Lynn Coady

It’s not often that one hears the term “great minor novel” bandied about in a Canadian literary context, possibly because the scene in this country is still relatively young and close-knit. There isn’t the room ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stalking the Holy: The Pursuit of Saint Making

By Michael W. Higgins

Theologian Michael Higgins’ treatise on the making of saints is a self-described personal inquiry into the process, players, and politics inherent in the canonization of Christianity’s heroes. These “action figures of Christendom” have long fascinated ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing

By Donna Bailey Nurse

“Literature has been the means through which I have learned to understand who I am and who I might be,” writes Donna Bailey Nurse in the introduction to this, the first major anthology of black ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

High: Confessions of a Pot Smuggler

By Brian O’Dea

Prologues are often melodramatic, affected, and to be skipped. Not this one. The prologue to Brian O’Dea’s memoir of life as a pot smuggler is heartbreaking, introducing the tale of how a nice kid from ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Devil’s Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit

By Taras Grescoe

“As soon as I encountered the words absinthe, hashish and opium as a teenager, I was dreaming up ways to get my hands on them,” confesses Taras Grescoe in the preface to The Devil’s Picnic. ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Reference

The Bloody Red Hand: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland

By Derek Lundy

It’s not surprising that Derek Lundy chose to start his new book with a scene set at sea – the Salt Spring Island writer has done well with his previous, nautically themed books. The opening ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: History

The Red Power Murders

By Thomas King

With The Red Power Murders, Thomas King (aka Hartley Goodweather) returns with a new DreadfulWater mystery. Having abandoned the façade of pseudonymity that accompanied DreadfulWater Shows Up, the first novel featuring Cherokee freelance investigator Thumps ... Read More »

April 24, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Dolphins at Sainte-Marie

By Sandra Sabatini

In the title story of this collection a child valiantly sells chocolate bars for her Grade 6 trip, only to learn it’s to the wrong theme park – she thought the teacher said Marineland, not ... Read More »

April 17, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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