John Goldbach has a gift for startling opening passages that shift unexpectedly from the ordinary to the surreal, ...
By Kate Forrest
Fiction
Alice Zorn's debut short story collection embodies what we have come to expect of Canadian fiction. The language ...
By Aparna Sanyal
This is a book to savour on summer afternoons in the country. Monique Proulx, who has written evocatively about ...
By Mary Soderstrom
"Only connect," wrote E.M. Forster, because that is the only truly important human activity. The underbelly of ...
By Elizabeth Johnston
Diane Obomsawin's Kaspar is a graphic novel that deals with a historical misfit; the cartoonists eschews ...
By Claude Lalumière
So how many of you assume that women fantasize primarily about romance - about meeting some gorgeous hunk who ...
By Adriana Palanca
In Fiorentino's latest work, a writer named Jonny - who coincidentally strongly resembles the author in name, ...
By Kate Forrest
"'Oh! If only I had a cat to keep me company!'" These words set off yet another fruitless discussion between a ...
By Kate Forrest
Sometimes it pays to be a rebel. "I've found that the contrarian instinct, the 'wrong' reaction, the socially ...
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Great photography, like great writing, is all about making the right choices. Sometimes the choices are easy and ...
By Laura Roberts
At a time when reality is darkened by global recession, readers can seek escape in the rich, imaginative world of ...
By Ami Sands Brodoff
This is a lovely book, with its thick, rich paper, its French flaps, and its bold red and black graphics. The ...
By Mary Soderstrom