Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting

With Under Pressure, Carl Honoré, author of In Praise of Slow, aims his sights on the youngest members of society. Using research studies and hundreds of interviews, he has pulled together a comprehensive look at ... Read More »

February 25, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Boys in the Trees

By Mary Swan

It’s a common criticism of Canadian fiction that many of our authors produce bleak and depressing books. Mary Swan fits this rather unflattering profile, but in her case, it works. Her first novel, The Boys ... Read More »

February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

By Gabor Maté

Gabor Maté’s latest book is a sprawling but fascinating look at addiction that is part science, part diatribe, part character study, and part confessional. Maté, a physician at the Portland Clinic in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Prognosis: The Current State and Shaky Future of Canada’s Health System

By John Lawrence Reynolds

Talking about health care is as Canadian a pastime as watching hockey. That’s the argument made by John Lawrence Reynolds in his introduction to Prognosis. A mystery novelist and non-fiction author, Reynolds writes not as ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Falling

By Anne Simpson

From the very first sentence of Falling, award-winning poet Anne Simpson’s second novel, it’s clear that this will be a story about grief and the constrained living that goes on around it. On the first ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference

By Katie Smith Milway; Eugenie Fernandes, illus.

In One Hen, Massachusetts writer Katie Smith Milway teams up with award-winning Canadian author and illustrator Eugenie Fernandes to tell a story of hope and persistence. Set in Ghana, the book chronicles how a young ... Read More »

January 21, 2008

The Real Made Up

By Stephen Brockwell

George Ellenbogen, a longtime resident of the U.S., is one of those rare Canadian poets better known abroad than at home. Morning Gothic, his selection of new and previously published work, shows just how arbitrary ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry