Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)

The first time Kamal Al-Solaylee watched Carol Reed’s film Oliver! on TV, he had the sudden wish that he were white. Even as a boy in Cairo, Al-Solaylee had already absorbed what is an all-too-regular ... Read More »

June 27, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Waste

By Andrew F. Sullivan

If a slaughterhouse had glass walls, what you’d witness through them might resemble the events in Andrew F. Sullivan’s debut novel, which is certainly an early candidate for feel-queasy book of the year. Unfolding in ... Read More »

June 22, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Harshly Purring

By Michael Knox

It’s been 30 years since Blue Velvet peeled the designer veil off of suburbia to reveal the dark impulses scurrying around underneath, and the books and movies that have since picked up that film’s themes ... Read More »

June 20, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition

By Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom

Two men could not be more different. Two men could not have more in common. Both filmmakers and careful observers of the human condition, Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom have written a love letter to ... Read More »

June 20, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Julia Vanishes (Witch’s Child series, Book 1)

By Catherine Egan

Julia isn’t a witch, but she does have a unique ability: she can be unseen at will. The talent doesn’t render her invisible, exactly, so much as give her the power to avoid being perceived. ... Read More »

June 15, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Kabungo

By Rolli; Milan Pavlovic (illus.)

With some fantasies you’re invited to wade in, discovering the principles, nature, and backstories of the invented world step by step. Others are best approached by diving in at the deep end. Kabungo is the ... Read More »

June 15, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Rich and Poor

By Jacob Wren

Over the few days in March I spent reading Jacob Wren’s new novel, the so-called “one per cent” were in the headlines a lot: billionaire blowhard Donald Trump had all but sewn up the Republican ... Read More »

May 31, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Moguls, Monsters and Madmen: An Uncensored Life in Show Business

By Barry Avrich

Considering that Barry Avrich’s book about his life in marketing and documentary movie-making presents itself as the story of “a kid from Montreal who has nothing extraordinary” yet “could have so many dreams come true,” ... Read More »

May 30, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Thirteen Shells

By Nadia Bozak

A stranger who’s read the nation’s coming-of-age fiction but never stepped foot in Canada could easily be pushed to exclaim, “What the hell happened there?” If bygone Anne of Avonlea’s biggest adolescent mishap involved dyed ... Read More »

May 26, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ballad of Danny Wolfe: Life of a Modern Outlaw

By Joe Friesen

If a ballad begins with the birth of its central figure – think Davey Crockett on a mountaintop in Tennessee – where does that leave this account of Danny Wolfe, born in Regina, three months ... Read More »

May 25, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Prev 189 190191192 193....1069 1070 Next

Quill and Quire