Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit

"Your call is important to us.” We’ve all this line before, but if my call were truly important to you, I would be talking to a living being instead of hanging on hold and being ... Read More »

May 2, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Sylvanus Now

By Donna Morrissey

To read Sylvanus Now, the third novel from Donna Morrissey, is to be immersed in the life of a Newfoundland outport community in the middle of the last century. It is a bracing experience, a ... Read More »

April 25, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Perfect Night to Go to China

By David Gilmour

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. In recent years, it’s become standard practice for novelists to adopt pop psychology’s five-stage model of grieving when writing about trauma. But as Toronto author and TV arts presenter David ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bird Factory

By David Layton

In this, his second book, David Layton tells the story of a man with an egomaniacal, eccentric, and adulterous artist for a father. It may sound like a sequel to his autobiography, Motion Sickness, in ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rosa’s District 6

By Rozena Maart

Finding courage, humour, and humanity within oppressive circumstances is a rare but hopeful thing in this bitter world. One such discovery is Rosa’s District 6, a series of short stories situated in 1960s Cape Town, ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad

By Naim Kattan, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Over a lengthy career, Iraq-born Montrealer Naim Kattan has written more than 30 books of fiction, poetry, and criticism, for which he has received a cache of awards, including France’s Légion d’Honneur and the Order ... Read More »

April 18, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Greenies

By Myra Paperny

What a shock it was, in 1976, to read Myra Paperny’s The Wooden People. It smacked me up against the sudden realization that I had never before read about a Jewish family unself-consciously depicted as ... Read More »

April 15, 2005

The Twelve Days of Summer

By Jan Andrews, Susan Rennick Jolliffe, illus.

From The Twelve Cats of Christmas by Kandy Radzinski to Emily Brenner’s On the First Day of Grade School, the familiar Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” has inspired lots of picture book adaptations. ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Ben Over Night

By Sarah Ellis

Governor General’s Award-winning Vancouver author and Q&Q contributing editor Sarah Ellis follows up her charming Big Ben with Ben Over Night. The youngest member of a family of five, Ben wants to sleep over at ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Omar on Board

By Maryann Kovalski

This engaging picture book glows with the feeling of summer holidays. Popular author-illustrator Maryann Kovalski, who divides her time between Toronto and New York, sets her latest story about the plump bear Omar and his ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

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