Where We Have to Go

A young Toronto girl blossoms into adulthood in Lauren Kirshner’s sweet and touching debut Where We Have to Go. Like adolescence itself, the novel contains some moments of awkward fumbling, but wins the reader over ... Read More »

May 11, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Awakening

By Kelley Armstrong

As the second book in Kelley Armstrong’s The Darkest Powers trilogy opens, 15-year-old Chloe Saunders is still clinging, albeit precariously, to the notion that her life may one day return to its dull but safe ... Read More »

May 4, 2009

Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip

By Lisa Robertson

Ex-Vancouverite Lisa Robertson’s eighth book is classified as poetry, but is no straightforward volume of lyrics. It also contains “essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias” written between 1995 and 2007. Robertson’s work ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Expressway

By Sina Queyras

In her first book of poems since her collection Lemon Hound, Montreal-based Sina Queyras employs the Romantic tradition of pastoral poetry to create passionate indictments of our consumerist, car-obsessed culture and our fast-lane mentality. In ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Pigeon

By Karen Solie

Karen Solie achieved near-instant acclaim with the multiple award nominations and wins heaped on her first collection, Short Haul Engine. If her excellent follow-up, Modern and Normal, didn’t prove outright that Solie wasn’t resting on ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Fortune Favours the Brave: Tales of Courage and Tenacity in Canadian Military History

By Colonel Bernd Horn, ed.

“In the end, our nation’s military has always shown courage, tenacity, and daring.” Such is the thesis of Fortune Favours the Brave, edited by Colonel Bernd Horn, historian and deputy commander of Canada’s Special Operations ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: History

Wild Blue: A Natural History of the World’s Largest Animal

By Dan Bortolotti

Before human greed and exploitation took its toll, the ocean was home to more than 300,000 blue whales. After half a century of horrific slaughter, and in the face of an indifferent public that doesn’t ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Buying Cigarettes for the Dog

By Stuart Ross

Buying Cigarettes for the Dog is the latest short fiction collection from Toronto writer and tireless small-press activist Stuart Ross. A considerable number of these stories have appeared in various periodicals, anthologies, and chapbooks since ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights

By Ezra Levant

At a time when Canada’s police and CSIS are implicated in the arrest, rendition, and torture in foreign prisons of Muslim Canadians, while the current Prime Minister refuses to intervene on their behalf, there are ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Where Am I? Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon but Get Lost in the Mall

By Colin Ellard

A homing pigeon released hundreds of miles away from its roost can somehow find its way home. Take the average Canadian city dweller and put him or her in the middle of a dense forest, ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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