Memory, war, loss, and forgiveness: these are the features of award-winning novels. The Gift from Berlin, winner of the 2005 National Dutch Debut Prize, attempts to cram all of them between its covers. The novel ... Read More »
February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Berlin, from Toronto writer Michael Mirolla, is an ambitious novel concerned with, among many other things, the nature of identity, the weight of history, the significance of catastrophe, and the legacies of both fascism and ... Read More »
February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The title pretty much says it all. Jonathan Goldstein, broadcaster and author of the ReLit Award-winning Lenny Bruce Is Dead, has gone beyond all previous translations of the Bible by taking all of the Good ... Read More »
February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The Colour of Lightning opens with Britt Johnson, a freed slave (and an actual historical figure), travelling from Kentucky to north Texas with his family in the waning days of the American Civil War. There ... Read More »
February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Thomas McCall may be a commercial photographer on Granville Island, but his third series appearance opens with classic P.I. lingo – “The fog outside my window was so thick you could scoop it up with ... Read More »
February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
For children born into the often easy and materialistic certainties of North American culture, war is mostly the stuff of video games or fantasy fiction, readily engaged or dismissed with the nod of a joystick. ... Read More »
February 17, 2009
For children born into the often easy and materialistic certainties of North American culture, war is mostly the stuff of video games or fantasy fiction, readily engaged or dismissed with the nod of a joystick. ... Read More »
February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
One of the early albums by the 1980s new wave band Talking Heads is More Songs About Buildings and Food. If the titans of Canadian fiction issued a similarly titled collection of work, it would ... Read More »
February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
For her 10th birthday, Maddy Williams got a pretty overwhelming surprise present from her globetrotting photographer uncle: a trip to Tanzania. She flew over and spent two weeks driving around in a jeep with her ... Read More »
February 17, 2009
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