Has the World Ended Yet?

The short stories that comprise Peter Darbyshire’s seventh book – the fourth under his own name – are obsessed with ghosts and angels, superheroes and gods. They appear as manifestations of discarded, mythological histories that ... Read More »

November 15, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ I Don’t Want to Know Anyone Too Well: Collected Stories

By Norman Levine

Norman Levine (1923–2005) was raised by Orthodox Jews in Ottawa and received his education in Montreal. But he was born in Poland and spent much of his life in England, where he married, started a ... Read More »

November 14, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race

By Naben Ruthnum

In her newest book, St. Thomas University journalism professor and former Globe and Mail columnist Jan Wong attempts to recreate the success of travelogue memoirs like Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love – taking herself, along ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China

By Jan Wong

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Sports and Pastimes

By Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard; Aimee Wall (trans.)

A lot has been written about millennials, a generation that has supposedly forsaken home ownership, careerism, and casual sex in favour of social media and bespoke underwear. A cohort of entitled, lazy, disinterested narcissists who ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Original Face

By Guillaume Morissette

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lightfoot

By Nicholas Jennings

How does a biographer say something new and insightful about well-known public figures who have already had large dollops of ink spilled on their behalf? Authors David Yaffe and Nicholas Jennings take distinctly different approaches ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Ghost Warning

By Kara Stanley

Seventeen-year-old Lou James recalls her journalist father saying to her in a moment of reflection, “Maybe there is no point in living or dying, other than the overarching point that we are biological organisms trying ... Read More »

October 31, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Montreal Noir

By Jacques Filippi (ed.); John McFetridge (ed.)

There is a particular sensibility associated with the noir genre in both film and literature. Steeped in shadow and gloom, with origins in German expressionism, the noir temperament is saturated in booze, sex, and sin. ... Read More »

October 31, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Thousand Consolations

By Julie Roorda

“Love is not an emotion, but a sense.” Thus begins Julie Roorda’s sweetly funny debut novel, a story of the unexpected romance between Paula, a grieving Toronto widow, and Héctor Vargas, a pianist on the ... Read More »

October 26, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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