April 2010
Montreal writer Johanna Skibsrud's last name couldn't be more appropriate. It is Norwegian, she told me recently ...
October 2009
St-Laurent Boulevard's Salon b is a second-story café which overlooks a funeral home. It is strangely fitting that ...
October 2009
It's 3 p.m. sharp when Dany Laferrière walks into La Bohême on St-Denis, the precise hour we'd agreed to meet and ...
July 2009
Michael Blair's latest novel in the Granville Island series is an engaging mystery, one that the reader can't put ...
April 2009
The Heart Specialist, Claire Holden Rothman's first novel, is a book to curl up with on rainy evenings - ...
April 2009
Before internet was high speed and most computers were portable, a 15-year-old boy shut down CNN.ca, Yahoo!, ...
October 2008
From Terence Byrnes's living room, one can hear a breadmaker churning away in the adjacent kitchen. As we settle ...
October 2008
The wounded characters in Mother Superior, Saleema Nawaz's debut short fiction collection, wander the ...
July 2008
It's not necessarily the contents of your resume that determine how your life will pan out. Something as simple as ...
July 2008
In the spring of 1973, a fresh-faced graduate looking only for steady work-not a steady income, let alone a ...
July 2008
A friend recently expressed concern that his parents were spending too much time watching TV rather than getting ...
July 2008
There is a high-minded passion to Katia Grubisic's debut poetry collection, What if red ran out, which, despite ...