A Map of Glass

On a winter’s night a man stumbles toward a great frozen lake, confused and disoriented. Months later his body, arms outstretched as if in supplication or an embrace, washes up in the retreating ice at ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lizard Cage

By Karen Connelly

You don’t need to start reading Karen Connelly’s latest knowing anything about her Governor General’s Award for non-fiction in 1993 or her five books of poetry or her enduring love for the country of Burma. ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Portable Altamont

By Brian Joseph Davis

On a high-school rugby trip, my buddy Mike Sullivan, to help pass time on the bus ride, introduced to the team the hilarious game of substituting the word “penis” for the principal noun in any ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

★ He Claims He Is the Direct Heir

By Lazar Sarna

He Claims He Is the Direct Heir is Montreal lawyer Lazar Sarna’s fourth poetry collection, but his first in over a quarter-century. In their conceits and concerns and their bleak gallows humour, Sarna’s poems are ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Laughing with My Mouth Full: Tales from a Gulf Islands Kitchen

By Pam Freir

Laughing with My Mouth Full opens with a wish list called “Pie in the Sky” that begins, “I wish that I’d wake up one day to find the whole world coated in chocolate” and ends, ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients

By Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels

A pill for every ill. It’s the sort of jingle that a pharmaceutical marketer would love to see on the Billboard charts and is certainly the mindset of most pharma executives and shareholders, according to ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books

By Ted Bishop

With his new book, Riding with Rilke, Edmonton academic and motorcycle aficionado Ted Bishop wholeheartedly embraces the admonition to “write what you know,” with impressive results. While the thought of a mild-mannered English professor discovering ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Politics of Bones: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria’s Oil

By J. Timothy Hunt

G-8 leaders and rock stars quick to deliver facile platitudes about the plight of Africa’s poor would do well to read Toronto journalist J. Timothy Hunt’s account of Dr. Owens Wiwa’s struggle for justice in ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

★ Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent

By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

What is left to say about the astonishing husband-and-wife team Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid? Having produced four award-winning cookbooks to date, the two have become something of a culinary phenomenon, perhaps the world’s most ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Cross Bones

By Kathy Reichs; $,

Kathy Reichs received a great deal of attention when her first novel was published. Many compared her to Patricia Cornwell, which was natural given that they each had a forensic scientist as the protagonist in ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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A Map of Glass

The Lizard Cage

Portable Altamont

★ He Claims He Is the Direct Heir

Laughing with My Mouth Full: Tales from a Gulf Islands Kitchen

Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients

Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books

The Politics of Bones: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria’s Oil

★ Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent

Cross Bones

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