The Tristan Chord

In The Tristan Chord, Bettina von Kampen brings opera’s heightened aesthetic and drama to the quieter, more realistic realm of the novel. The title comes from the first chord of Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde, ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot

By Nicole Markotic

Nicole Markotic’s second novel tells the story of a young woman trying to understand how the devout Mormon girl she once was could have developed into the woman she is now (“lapsed” hardly begins to ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis

By Aaron Peck

“While on a residency at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on Toronto Island in June 2004, an archivist named Bernard Willis disappeared.” Thus begins the introduction to Vancouver author Aaron Peck’s debut novel. ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Reading by Lightning

By Joan Thomas

Most first-time novelists strain for the gold ring; Joan Thomas grabs it effortlessly in this wonderful book. Undoubtedly, her years editing, reviewing, and writing about other writers’ work in The Globe and Mail and elsewhere ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Riverbones: Stumbling After Eden in the Jungles of Suriname

By Andrew Westoll

First as a primatologist, and then as a practitioner of literary non-fiction, Andrew Westoll has spent considerable time in Suriname, on the Atlantic coast of South America. He calls it one of “those economically poor, ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Reference

Great Expectations: Twenty-Four True Stories About Childbirth

By Dede Crane and Lisa Moore, eds.

Here’s the thing about birth stories: any parent who has undergone the process of bearing a child experiences a bizarre period afterward when they mistakenly believe that everyone wants to hear the minute details of ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst

By Kenneth Whyte

The Uncrowned King, a long, detailed, and occasionally clever book about William Randolph Hearst’s explosive entry into the New York newspaper market at the end of the 19th century, can be enjoyed on three different ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime

By Declan Hill

One of the more mystifying aspects of soccer is how a low-contact sport that so disdains physical toughness has attracted a fan base whose violent criminality far exceeds that of those who worship, say, the ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

This Island in Time: Remarkable Tales from Montreal’s Past

By John Kalbfleisch

John Kalbfleisch’s book delightfully documents Montreal’s beginnings as a religious mission, then charts its development all the way up to Expo ’67. In his introduction, Kalbfleisch, a reporter for Montreal’s Gazette, says that he views ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: History

The End of The River: Strangling the Rio São Francisco

By Brian Harvey

In the past decade, readers have been bombarded with literary diatribes against clear-cut logging, habitat loss, overfishing, pollution, and species extinctions. Brian Harvey knows we’ve had enough, so in his new book, he lures us ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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