Trout Stanley

In her third play, Trout Stanley, poet and playwright Claudia Dey presents Sugar and Grace Ducharme, a pair of seriously messed-up, non-identical twins burning off some hardcore bad karma. Try as they may, these girls ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bizarre Winery Tragedy

By Lyle Neff

Bizarre Winery Tragedy is Vancouver-based literary journalist and fraud investigator Lyle Neff’s third poetry collection. As in his first two books, Neff’s voice is for the most part brash, alert, and inventive, and his subjects ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

The Burning Alphabet

By Barry Dempster

The Burning Alphabet is Brick Books editor Barry Dempster’s 10th poetry collection. In it, he renews his exploration of the dominant themes of his recent Selected Poems (sex, death, and the struggle of the individual ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks

By Susan Casey; $, pp.,

There’s nothing quite like the dorsal fin of a great white shark to instill fear and highlight the timeless conflict between humans and nature. TV ratings during any given “Shark Week!” and museum attendance during ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada

By William Johnson

Stephen Harper has made a significant contribution to the development of conservative policy and politics in Canada, yet remains an unpopular figure with the majority of Canadians. Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada aims ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict

By Michael Byers

It’s an ironic twist that terms such as international law and the laws of war have found a new lease on life through their constant violation in the U.S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: History

Don’t Get Too Comfortable

By David Rakoff

Ex-pat Canadian and long-time New Yorker David Rakoff is an extremely funny man. This, his second release (following a collection of autobiographical essays called Fraud) is for the most part an extremely funny book.Rakoff, a ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Touch

By Gayleen Froese

Gayleen Froese’s Touch is dark and outlandish, yet compelling in the human intimacy that it captures. This Saskatchewan author’s first novel is an unusual detective story that hinges on the psychic connection between touch and ... Read More »

September 26, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Guests of Chance

By Colleen Curran

Guests of Chance begins on a plane somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean as heroine Lenore contemplates her life. She’s recently been to the Oscars, she’s a walking pop-culture lexicon, and in the latest in the ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Freezeout

By Rick Gadziola

Freezeout, Rick Gadziola’s second Jake Morgan mystery, begins with the murder of Las Vegas mobster Carmine Bonello in 1959. Bonello was out in the desert burying cash when his chauffeur did him in. The rest ... Read More »