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This Is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada

Several decades ago, a group of CanLit critics began appealing for more evaluative criticism of our national literature. What they meant by this was a stricter examination of how certain texts worked, an emphasis on ... Read More »

December 15, 2006 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

For Honour’s Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace

By Mark Zuehlke

For Honour’s Sake is a rollicking and thoroughly enjoyable survey of the War of 1812. From casus belli to peace treaty, Mark Zuehlke brings his prodigious writing talent to the history of a war that ... Read More »

December 15, 2006 | Filed under: History

Hockey: A People’s History

By Michael McKinley

Year in and year out, the overwhelming majority of sports books published in Canada are hockey books. But how do writers and those who produce their books for the mass market avoid the “just another ... Read More »

December 15, 2006 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century

By Andrew Nikiforuk

Andrew Nikiforuk, the Calgary-based journalist and winner of the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Saboteurs, about Alberta oil maverick Wiebo Ludwig, calls widespread pandemics “biological invaders” in his new book.This approach makes for interesting reading, ... Read More »

December 14, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization

By Thomas Homer-Dixon

Thomas Homer-Dixon proclaims the end is nigh. That’s not an altogether bad thing, though. In The Upside of Down, the University of Toronto professor, best known for his book The Ingenuity Gap, sees hope in ... Read More »

December 11, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Fox Walked Alone

By Barbara Reid

Picture book illustration can, at its finest, transport you right into the heart of a story’s emotion and momentum. How anyone can achieve that transmogrification with the lumpish medium of Plasticine is an artistic mystery. ... Read More »

December 4, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Green City: People, Nature and Urban Places

By Mary Soderstrom

We hear so much about “green” these days that the adjective has gotten a little tired. But readers with a taste for books on urban architecture and public planning – and more broadly, the sociology ... Read More »

November 27, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Geist Atlas of Canada: Meat Maps and Other Strange Cartographies

By Melissa Edwards

From the clever minds who brought you “Haiku Night in Canada” comes The Geist Atlas of Canada, a collection of 50 of Geist magazine’s comprehensive maps of nutty Canadian place names, each one tied together ... Read More »

November 20, 2006 | Filed under: Reference

Lullabies for Little Criminals

By Heather O'Neill

The problem with the designation “coming of age” is that it often assumes there is a particular, identifiable moment when we finally discover we have “grown up.” Like the best coming-of-age chroniclers, Heather O’Neill understands ... Read More »

November 13, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Law of Dreams

By Peter Behrens

Almost everyone in Canada has ancestors who immigrated to this country from afar; that past journey is part of the universal Canadian memory. Peter Behrens’ first novel reflects his own family’s experience, forced out of ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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