Sylvanus Now

To read Sylvanus Now, the third novel from Donna Morrissey, is to be immersed in the life of a Newfoundland outport community in the middle of the last century. It is a bracing experience, a ... Read More »

April 25, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Perfect Night to Go to China

By David Gilmour

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. In recent years, it’s become standard practice for novelists to adopt pop psychology’s five-stage model of grieving when writing about trauma. But as Toronto author and TV arts presenter David ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bird Factory

By David Layton

In this, his second book, David Layton tells the story of a man with an egomaniacal, eccentric, and adulterous artist for a father. It may sound like a sequel to his autobiography, Motion Sickness, in ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rosa’s District 6

By Rozena Maart

Finding courage, humour, and humanity within oppressive circumstances is a rare but hopeful thing in this bitter world. One such discovery is Rosa’s District 6, a series of short stories situated in 1960s Cape Town, ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad

By Naim Kattan, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Over a lengthy career, Iraq-born Montrealer Naim Kattan has written more than 30 books of fiction, poetry, and criticism, for which he has received a cache of awards, including France’s Légion d’Honneur and the Order ... Read More »

April 18, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

With the Boys: Field Notes on Being a Guy

By Jake MacDonald

In the first pages of his second man-in-nature memoir, Jake MacDonald invokes the manliest muse, Ernest Hemingway, lamenting that all hunting and fishing books end up being compared to the work of Papa. With such ... Read More »

April 11, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Devil in Babylon: Fear of Progress and The Birth of Modern Life

By Allan Levine

“Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses…/Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Anyone who has come within sight of the Statue of Liberty cannot but be ... Read More »

April 4, 2005 | Filed under: History

Return from Africa

By Francine D’Amour, Wayne Grady, trans.

Charlotte and Julien, an educated, middle-class Montreal couple, are set to leave on an eight-month excursion to Egypt. But two weeks before their departure date they have a massive row and Charlotte tears up her ... Read More »

March 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Paul Moves Out

By Michel Rabagliati

Quebec graphic designer Michel Rabagliati’s second book, Paul Moves Out is a warm-hearted sequel to his autobiographical graphic novel Paul Has a Summer Job. Appropriate for both young adult and adult readers, Paul Moves Out ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

By John Vaillant

It’s obvious how trees in myth and literature enter the public imagination – Eden’s tree of knowledge, the Bodhi tree, Tolkien’s Ents, H.C. Anderson’s fir tree – but how trees become famous in real life ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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