Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease

What will happen if I do nothing? Most patients are conditioned to avoid asking that question after a self-assured physician reports the result of a test or investigative procedure that uncovers evidence of a scary ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Mr. Churchill’s Profession: The Statesman as Author and the Book that Defined the “Special Relationship”

By Peter Clarke

Equal parts quotable orator, dogged statesman, and caricature-prone cigar-chewing Victorian, Winston Churchill remains synonymous with British politics. And yet few people are aware that he was also the recipient of the 1953 Nobel Prize in ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: History

Rasputin’s Bastards

By David Nickle

David Nickle’s latest novel, a thriller with fantasy elements, is overly long and has a highly convoluted plot, both of which serve to undermine the suspense. Rasputin’s Bastards involves several groups of bad guys working ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The City’s Gates

By Peter Dubé

The City’s Gates introduces itself as a puzzle, with an “Apologia” letting us know that the book we are about to read is an “archaeology” consisting of documents found in the rubble of a building ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mount Royal

By Basil Papademos

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Montreal, 1989. For Johnny, a drug merchant and bisexual prostitute, the metropolis represents “one of the last big Western cities where you can ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Five Little Bitches

By Teresa McWhirter

When members of Wet Leather, the fictional band in Teresa McWhirter’s third novel for adults, are asked if they’re feminists, they answer, “Duh.” The only problem is it’s hard to believe them. The back cover ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Signs and Wonders

By Alix Ohlin

It’s always a good sign when a book that opens with an attempted suicide still manages to elicit a surprised chuckle from the reader by page eight. Such is the complex, delightful nature of Alix ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gethsemane Hall

By David Annandale

With Gethsemane Hall, Winnipeg writer David Annandale has created that rarest of books: a genuinely chilling horror novel. And a fresh take on the hoary old haunted house novel, no less. Following the death of ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Thirst

By Shree Ghatage

Fans of Shree Ghatage’s first novel, Brahma’s Dream, will appreciate her follow-up, which features the return of Vasanti, the aunt of the earlier novel’s 13-year-old protagonist. Thirst reveals the true circumstances behind the supposed death ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Valery the Great

By Elaine McCluskey

In her second collection of short stories, Elaine McCluskey has concocted a ragtag chorus of sometimes funny, often sad characters. The title story, about a child who has been exiled to the circus by the ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease

Mr. Churchill’s Profession: The Statesman as Author and the Book that Defined the “Special Relationship”

Rasputin’s Bastards

The City’s Gates

Mount Royal

Five Little Bitches

★ Signs and Wonders

Gethsemane Hall

Thirst

Valery the Great

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