The Miracles of Ordinary Men

In her messy, visceral debut novel, Hamilton-based author Amanda Leduc addresses age-old Catholic obsessions of good and evil, right and wrong, free will and predetermination. By turns enchanting and frustrating, The Miracles of Ordinary Men ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Douglas Notebooks

By Christine Eddie; Sheila Fischman, trans.

Sheila Fischman has undertaken an ambitious task in translating Christine Eddie’s short novel, The Douglas Notebooks, into English. The original French text, Les Carnets de Douglas, won the 2008 Prix France-Quebec and the 2009 Prix ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

To the Spring, by Night

By Seyhmus Dagtekin; Donald Winkler, trans.

Seyhmus Dagtekin, a Kurdish poet and writer born in Turkey but living in Paris, gently unfolds a story that reads like a cross between a memoir and a sacred text. Told in the first person ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Eat Your Heart Out

By Katie Boland

The stories in Eat Your Heart Out explore failed relationships and missed opportunities. Loneliness and regret permeate the collection, but it’s saved from depressing monotony by Toronto actress Katie Boland’s use of voice and tone ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

South of Elfrida

By Holley Rubinsky

Holley Rubinsky’s fourth book is a collection of 18 short stories that addresses the theme of liminality: her characters, mostly female, transgress borders of countries and relationships, and stand, tentatively, on the threshold of new ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Canary

By Nancy Jo Cullen

As someone raised in a working-class household, it’s rare for me to read CanLit that evokes the street I grew up on, or includes characters who remind me of my dad. So it was a ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?

By Neil Gross

The new book by University of British Columbia sociology professor Neil Gross sets itself quite the challenge in its title. The answers to this double-barrelled question, after all, appear complicated enough to justify devoting more ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Secret of the Blue Trunk

By Lise Dion; Liedewij Hawke, trans.

Known in her native Quebec mainly as a humorist, Lise Dion is being introduced to English-speaking Canadians on a far more sombre note. The Secret of the Blue Trunk (in a fluid translation by Liedewij ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Woman Upstairs

By Claire Messud

Don’t be fooled by the opening chapters of Claire Messud’s new novel, in which Nora Eldridge blazes forth with furious intensity, her words spitting and sparking off the page as she describes who she is, ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Is Work Killing You? A Doctor’s Prescription for Treating Workplace Stress

By David Posen

David Posen’s fourth self-help book outlines changes to the modern office that have led to a workforce drowning under what he calls the Big Three stressors: volume, velocity, and abuse. Corporate downsizing in the 1990s, ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Prev 307 308309310 311....1069 1070 Next

Quill and Quire

The Miracles of Ordinary Men

The Douglas Notebooks

To the Spring, by Night

Eat Your Heart Out

South of Elfrida

★ Canary

Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?

The Secret of the Blue Trunk

The Woman Upstairs

Is Work Killing You? A Doctor’s Prescription for Treating Workplace Stress

Job Board