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Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic

Oral biographies are a comparatively recent genre. The first one I recall that reached an exalted level of excellence was Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein and George Plimpton. The first Canadian one to ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

By Don Thompson

Why would someone spend $12-million on an enormous stuffed shark suspended in a tank of formaldehyde? When American billionaire collector Steve Cohen purchased that piece by British artist Damien Hirst in 2004, economics professor and ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada

By James P. Delgado

In 1274 and 1281, having subjugated China, the Mongols launched massive seaborne attacks on the Japanese islands. Both attempts failed, in part because of sudden storms that wrecked the fleets. Although the storms were probably ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: History

Soldiers Made Me Look Good: A Life in the Shadow of War

By Lewis MacKenzie

Following some 15 years on the heels of his bestselling Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo comes Major-General (retired) Lewis MacKenzie’s newest book, Soldiers Made Me Look Good. The earlier book chronicled MacKenzie’s military career, culminating ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: History

Pathologies

By Susan Olding

Pathologies is an apt title for Kingston, Ontario-based writer Susan Olding’s first book, a collection of personal essays. In each of the 15 pieces, she dissects moments from her own life in the manner of ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

By Daniel Levitin

Daniel Levitin’s new book follows closely on the heels of his surprise bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music, an entertaining overview of the emerging field of music cognition. While that book contained plenty of ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane

By Ken McGoogan

With the imminent opening of the Northwest Passage due to climate change, information about Canada’s North is becoming more and more valuable. Enter the journals, sketches, and published books of American explorer Elisha Kent Kane, ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: History

Entitlement

By Jonathan Bennett

Jonathan Bennett’s second novel captures the uneasy existence of a Canadian dynasty, as biographer Trudy Clarke attempts to make a name for herself by writing the definitive tell-all about the Aspinalls, a wealthy family that ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Filaria

By Brent Hayward

Filaria is a double debut: the first book to be published by the new macabre fiction imprint ChiZine Publications (an offshoot of the Chiaroscuro website run by Toronto author Brett Savory), as well as the ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shuck

By Daniel Allen Cox

Shuck, a startling debut novel by Montreal’s Daniel Allen Cox, charts one young man’s path from homeless street hustler to porn superstar to aspiring writer. The story’s a lot more hopeful than it sounds. ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada

Soldiers Made Me Look Good: A Life in the Shadow of War

Pathologies

The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane

Entitlement

Filaria

Shuck

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