True Patriot Love: Four Generations in Search of Canada

In the author’s note that introduces True Patriot Love, writer, public intellectual, and current Leader of the Official Opposition Michael Ignatieff claims that the man who began writing this book in 2000 is essentially the ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: History

The Sheikh’s Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World

By Richard Poplak

Contemporary cultural criticism and immersive journalism often take the form of a road trip, albeit to places a little off the tourist track. In The Sheikh’s Batmobile, author Richard Poplak scores some heavy frequent-flier miles ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World’s Most Dangerous Places

By Terry Gould

When one hears of a journalist dying in pursuit of a story, one immediately imagines some strafed and cratered combat zone. But as investigative writer Terry Gould is quick to point out in his new ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wildlives

By Monique Proulx; David Homel and Fred A. Reed, trans.

Monique Proulx’s work might best be described as curiously flawed fiction filled with prose of inflated exuberance. Wildlives, her new novel, is no exception. With each new chapter we are gradually introduced to a densely ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Grave Doubts

By John Moss

John Moss introduced his detective duo, David Morgan and Miranda Quin, in last year’s Still Waters. They were an appealing team, navigating the bounds of professional partnership and personal involvement, more prone to banter and ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Going Ashore

By Mavis Gallant

Any new book by Mavis Gallant is an event, and Going Ashore is an interesting and unusual one, full of surprises as well as confirmations. Gallant has written a great many more pieces of fiction ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Best of Men

By Claire Letemendia

Warmongering royalty, an army plundering its own people, and morality measures pushing the brothels of London to bankruptcy: there was much to talk about in England circa 1642. And the characters in Claire Letemendia’s debut ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing

By Cecelia Frey

The jacket copy for A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing promises the reader a lyrical journey through one musician’s rise and fall, as seen through the eyes of his devoted girlfriend. It begins on ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cecilian Vespers

By Anne Emery

After the tumultuous personal upheaval that Halifax lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins underwent in Barrington Street Blues, this fourth volume in Anne Emery’s mystery series gives him welcome respite on the family front. This time, ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Beautiful Children

By Michael Kenyon

Memory and loss are themes that run through much of the CanLit canon. In her two novels, Anne Michaels has made these twin touchstones into a kind of cottage industry. Michael Kenyon, another poet/novelist, has ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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True Patriot Love: Four Generations in Search of Canada

The Sheikh’s Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World

Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World’s Most Dangerous Places

Wildlives

Grave Doubts

Going Ashore

The Best of Men

A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing

Cecilian Vespers

The Beautiful Children

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