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Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why

For the last 30 years, politicians throughout the Anglo-American world have inveighed against big government in the name of greater efficiency, while governments have simultaneously become bloated and less efficient. In an attempt to shed ... Read More »

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

The Juggler’s Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us

By Carolyn Abraham

With recent advances in genetics, science has hinted that DNA might be able to answer questions about human identity and origins that have previously been restricted to the realms of history and philosophy. Armed with ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Unlikely Radicals: The Story of the Adams Mine Dump War

By Charlie Angus

The Adams Mine controversy is a David and Goliath story that has popped in and out of the media for the past 20 years. It began in 1989, when metropolitan Toronto, bursting at the seams ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: History

The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed

By Carl Honore

As a sequel of sorts to the international bestseller In Praise of Slow, journalist Carl Honoré’s new book is part advocacy for social reform, part psychological guidebook for anyone who has ever needed to solve ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

By Edward Keenan

Invoking Toronto’s recent history alongside its more distant past, political observer Edward Keenan, an editor at the city’s alt-weekly newspaper The Grid, has written a succinct, accessible book that brings some much needed context to ... Read More »

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

Drunk Mom

By Jowita Bydlowska

Addiction memoirs have proliferated in recent decades, crowding a genre once limited to a handful of classics such as the gentlemanly Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and the hilariously hedonistic Fear and Loathing in Las ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility

By Théodora Armstrong

Théodora Armstrong’s debut collection launches House of Anansi Press’s new short-fiction imprint, Astoria, in impressive fashion. This is a writer to watch, and a book not to be missed. In the trio “Rabbit,” “Whale Stories,” ... Read More »

March 11, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Demonologist

By Andrew Pyper

Andrew Pyper’s unabashedly commercial tendencies, already on display in novels such as The Killing Circle and The Guardians, stretch into new territory in The Demonologist, a thrilling, slapdash, and at times even melancholy mix of ... Read More »

March 4, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lion Seeker

By Kenneth Bonert

Kenneth Bonert’s ambitious debut novel arrives as this year’s only addition to Random House of Canada’s New Face of Fiction series, following a long list of career-launching titles that includes Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your ... Read More »

February 25, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Train: A Holocaust Story

By Rona Arato

Paul Auslander was five years old in 1944 when the Nazis occupied his hometown of Karcag, Hungary. Along with his mother and 10-year-old brother, he was moved to the town’s Jewish ghetto, deported to work ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Book links

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