The Continuity Girl

Much like her columns, the first novel by hipster Globe and Mail columnist Leah McLaren will titillate some readers with its wit and candour and frustrate others with its giggly, airy quality. But in the ... Read More »

January 23, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

If We Ever Break Up, This Is My Book

By Jason Logan

If someone else is suffering enough to write it down/When every single word makes sense/Then it’s easier to have those songs around.” Those wise words were written by Bernie Taupin, and sung by Elton John ... Read More »

January 16, 2006 | Filed under: Reference

Inter Alia

By David Seymour; $, pp.,

Inter Alia is Toronto-based David Seymour’s first book. The first section – a suite of poems that adopts the geological themes and manner of Seymour’s mentor and editor, Don McKay – is rather uninspired. Entitled ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Blue Feast

By Shawna Lemay

In a prefatory note to her third full-length collection, Edmonton writer Shawna Lemay says, “The reader who wants these poems is the reader who understands the complicated joy that is entwined with sadness.” In the ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Belle Moral: A Natural History

By Ann-Marie MacDonald; $

To call Belle Moral Ann-Marie MacDonald’s newest play is a bit of a misnomer, since it began life as The Arab’s Mouth and had a run at Toronto’s Factory Theatre in 1990. Since the idea ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Shape I Gave You

By Martha Baillie

This haunting novel begins with an epigraph from the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz that starts, “We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers.” How arresting and intriguing. What would you do in ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blood Sports

By Eden Robinson

In a recent interview with the Toronto Star, author Michael Redhill confessed that he has become “less married to mainstream, lyrical kinds of writing … I would like to have the courage to make less ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age

By John Doyle

Familiar to many Canadians as The Globe and Mail’s television critic, John Doyle has written a book that is partly a memoir of his coming of age in the Ireland of the 1960s and ’70s ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Too Close for Comfort: Canada’s Future Within Fortress North America

By Maude Barlow

Tireless Canadian nationalist Maude Barlow, a prolific writer, researcher, and activist, has produced the latest in a series of social critiques that call on Canadians to beware of closer ties with the U.S. She examines ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas

By Isabel Vincent

In Bodies and Souls, seasoned investigative journalist Isabel Vincent turns her attention to an apparently forgotten yet utterly notorious episode in history: the Jewish slave trade that forced thousands of young women out of Eastern ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: History

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The Continuity Girl

If We Ever Break Up, This Is My Book

Inter Alia

Blue Feast

Belle Moral: A Natural History

The Shape I Gave You

Blood Sports

A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age

Too Close for Comfort: Canada’s Future Within Fortress North America

Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas

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