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Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery

By Margaret Atwood; DuŠan Petricic, illus.

Whenever new work appears from Margaret Atwood, we wonder what award it will win. Wandering Wenda, her newest book for children, wanders the well-worn pathway winding through her other tales for wee ones, which are ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Picture a Tree

By Barbara Reid

Virtuoso Plasticine artist Barbara Reid has created another extraordinary book to delight readers of every age. The variety of shapes and textures she creates by pressing the brightly coloured clay onto her illustration board and ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

Apologetic for Joy

By Jessica Hiemstra-Van Der Horst

Jessica Hiemstra-Van Der Horst’s first full-length book of poetry incorporates two previously published chapbooks alongside new material. The book explores the nature of artistic creation; thematically, it elevates the visual, sensory, tactile world. Whether focusing ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Gift Horse

By Mark Callanan

Mark Callanan’s second collection of poetry opens with an examination of life after near-death, an experience the poet knows first-hand. The book was written after a “near-fatal medical emergency,” and many of the early poems ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers

By Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson

There is no denying that the new book by University of Regina professors Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson is a valuable and valiant effort. Addressing the way Canada’s native population has historically been ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Everyday Exotic, the Cookbook: It’s About Flavour

By Roger Mooking

Born in Trinidad, Roger Mooking grew up in Edmonton and now lives in Toronto. The title of his first cookbook, Everyday Exotic, refers to his bifocal perspective on food in Canada. As explained in the ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border

By Jacques Poitras

Most modern North American works of political science and political history – both academic and popular – focus on two interrelated themes: security and sovereignty. Added to those preoccupations in the decade since 9/11 is ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society

By Ian Dowbiggin

According to a 2009 report from the Public Health Agency of Canada, a whopping 20 per cent of Canadians will experience some mental health issue in their lifetimes. This includes 4.8 per cent who will ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time

By Jessa Gamble

At one point in our collective history, humans didn’t measure time. At least, not in the neatly segmented, overly regimented way we do now around most of the planet. In the past, time was measured ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Infrared

By Nancy Huston

Nancy Huston is something of a biographical curiosity and an ever bigger bibliographical one. She was born and reared in Calgary, and educated at elite institutions in New York and Paris. (Roland Barthes supervised her ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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