The Nearly Girl

South African–Canadian author Lisa de Nikolits is no stranger to the industry – four of her five books have been recognized with Independent Publishing Awards, and she’s contributed to multiple short-fiction anthologies. Yet her latest ... Read More »

November 16, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Elephants in My Backyard

By Rajiv Surendra

If you know Rajiv Surendra at all, it’s probably from his scene-stealing performance as Kevin G., a rapping mathlete in the 2004 movie Mean Girls. He threw himself into the audition, wowed the director, and ... Read More »

November 15, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Involuntary Bliss

By Devon Code

Back in 1939, Winston Churchill described Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” One might use the same words to describe Peterborough, Ontario, author Devon Code’s complex, sometimes brilliant, often frustrating ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bleeding Blue: Giving My All for the Game

By Jim Lang; Wendel Clark

For Toronto hockey fans born before 1980 or thereabout, Wendel Clark is as close to godly as a Canadian is likely to come. His No. 17 jersey hangs in the rafters above the ice at ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Guy

By Jowita Bydlowska

This month’s tempest in a literary teapot comes courtesy of Lionel Shriver, who stirred up controversy with her keynote address to the Brisbane Writers Festival. Charged with speaking on the subject of “community and belonging,” ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

By Noah Richler

Noah Richler’s latest book is meant to be the story of one unlikely politician’s doomed campaign as a candidate for the federal New Democratic Party. But this enjoyable, albeit uneven, memoir also provides some insight ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

The Woods: A Year on Protection Island

By Amber McMillan

Amber McMillan’s memoir tells the story of the author’s escape from Toronto to B.C. Tired of city living, McMillan and her husband set their sights on Protection Island, in Nanaimo Harbour. The couple is drawn ... Read More »

November 1, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Advocate

By Darren Greer

During the first few years of the AIDS crisis, the darkness and confusion surrounding the disease were so complete that reason, no matter how firm its foundation, often lost out to fear and hysteria. Gay ... Read More »

November 1, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

News of the World

By Paulette Jiles

With the omnipresence of 24-hour TV news channels, online news aggregators, and Twitter, it is difficult to imagine a time when global news wasn’t available instantaneously; when, if you wanted any sense of world events, ... Read More »

October 31, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

By Jennifer Welsh

In The Return of History, the 2016 edition of the CBC Massey Lectures, Jennifer Welsh takes umbrage with Francis Fukuyama. In 1992, Fukuyama declared that the end of the Cold War marked the inevitable cessation ... Read More »

October 26, 2016 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs

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