★ The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

One prevailing theme of most First World War histories is the inevitability of conflict: Europe wanted a war in 1914 and was just waiting for the perfect excuse. In her wonderful new book, Margaret MacMillan ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: History

★ They Never Told Me and Other Stories

By Austin Clarke

In an illuminating prose portrait of his friend of 40 years, author Barry Callaghan writes that Austin Clarke is “an island man who’s ended up inland, a sunshine man who has ended up in snow ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Who’s Afraid of the Black Blocs? Anarchy in Action Around the World

By Francis Dupuis-Déri; Lazer Lederhendler, trans.

When thousands of demonstrators shut down the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle almost 15 years ago, a small group of black-clad, masked window smashers captured significant media attention and kickstarted a heated debate in ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Languages of the Unheard: Why Militant Protest Is Good for Democracy

By Stephen D’Arcy

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Strip

By Andrew Binks

The toned body of John Rottam pirouettes through Andrew Binks’s second novel. The young dancer traverses the country, migrating from ballet to burlesque, while navigating gay romantic life at the advent of the AIDS crisis. ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A

By André Alexis

Novelist and playwright André Alexis caused a considerable stir in 2010 with an essay in his collection Beauty & Sadness that tore the skin off Canadian book reviewing and the state of literary culture in ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Burning Paradise

By Robert Charles Wilson

It’s the fall of 2014, and plans are underway to mark the centenary of the Great Armistice treaty, which has brought lasting peace to the world. It’s been a period without widespread war overseen by ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Troop

By Nick Cutter

Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Craig Davidson couldn’t have come up with a less inspired pseudonym than Nick Cutter for this pure-genre outing, but that’s the only knock against an otherwise outstanding tale of terror, full ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

children of air india: un/auhorized exhibits and interjections

By Renée Sarojini Saklikar

Though the terrorist bombing of Air India flight 182, travelling from Montreal to Delhi, took place more than 25 years ago, it remains an open wound in the Canadian psyche. Of the 329 people killed ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Bite Down Little Whisper

By Don Domanski

Bite Down Little Whisper is a lush and resonant collection about the spirit and science of the natural world. It encompasses Taoism, Greek mythology, Egyptology, and the Celts, all seasoned with a sensibility steeped in ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

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★ The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

★ They Never Told Me and Other Stories

Who’s Afraid of the Black Blocs? Anarchy in Action Around the World

Languages of the Unheard: Why Militant Protest Is Good for Democracy

Strip

★ A

Burning Paradise

★ The Troop

children of air india: un/auhorized exhibits and interjections

★ Bite Down Little Whisper

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