Outcast

Eliot Steil, the antihero at the centre of José Latour’s wonderful new mystery, was born in 1950 to a Cuban mother and an American father, a businessman in the sugar industry. Young Eliot and his ... Read More »

February 12, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

King

By Tanya Chapman

There are many reasons why stories told from the perspective of teens and early twentysomethings can falter in the eyes of older readers. When you’re young, life is full of superlatives, everything seems exciting and ... Read More »

January 31, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Sharp Intake of Breath

By John Miller

Having been born with a split lip and cleft palate, Herman “Toshy” Wolfman faces his share of ridicule and turmoil. Mistreatment leads him into bitterness and petty crime. However, his love of family, particularly his ... Read More »

January 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pride of Baghdad

By Brian K. Vaughan; Niko Henrichon

Virgil’s Aeneid famously sang of arms and the man. Pride of Baghdad, a collaboration between California author Brian K. Vaughan and Quebec City illustrator Niko Henrichon, sings just as passionately of arms and the mane.The ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Graphica

Zero Gravity

By Sharon English

Zero Gravity is Sharon English’s second book of short stories. Unlike those of English’s 2002 debut, Uncomfortably Numb, these stories are not interconnected via a narrator, though there is a pervasive theme to the collection ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Moral Disorder

By Margaret Atwood

Unwary readers attempting to read Moral Disorder as a novel – an easy mistake given the lack of direction on the cover – do so at their own peril. Diligent readers who look at the ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Dead Man’s Float

By Nicholas Maes

The post-Holocaust novel or memoir has been with us for 60 years now, and like many serious cultural artifacts, it shapeshifts with the times. Dead Man’s Float, by Nicholas Maes, joins this sombre parade and ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent

By Rodrigo Bascunan, Christian Pearce

Toronto’s “summer of the gun” has come and gone, and with it much of the public debate about guns, their place in polite Canadian society, and ways to get them off the streets.Rodrigo Bascunan and ... Read More »

January 22, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint-George

By Hugh Brewster; Eric Valasquez, illus.

One of the most famous men of 18th-century France began life as the much-loved son of a slave and a wealthy plantation owner. Joseph de Bologne, or the Chevalier de Saint-George, moved to Paris at ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

One Well: The Story of Water on Earth

By Rochelle Strauss; Rosemary Woods, illus.

The most striking thing about One Well is its luminous illustrations, which recall an illustrated children’s folktale rather than a Dorling Kindersley-style information book. Refreshingly, the images are richly coloured pastels and fluid watercolours with ... Read More »

January 19, 2007

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