Reviews

Heading South

Heading South

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 ...

By Kimberly Bourgeois

The Middle of Everywhere

Monique Polak's Young Adult fiction titles are becoming a resource for parents and teachers alike. In her latest ...

By Margaret Goldik

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!

Jonathan Goldstein may have had good connections with God. He almost went to yeshiva to study the Torah. Almost, ...

By Byron Rempel

Wildlives

This is a book to savour on summer afternoons in the country. Monique Proulx, who has written evocatively about ...

By Mary Soderstrom

Ruins and Relics

Alice Zorn's debut short story collection embodies what we have come to expect of Canadian fiction. The language ...

By Aparna Sanyal

Selected Blackouts

John Goldbach has a gift for startling opening passages that shift unexpectedly from the ordinary to the surreal, ...

By Kate Forrest

This One’s Going to Last Forever

The discovery of fossil fuels gave people in the West the equivalent power of slaves, according to economist ...

By Elizabeth Johnston

After the Red Night

In a recent episode on CBC's Ideas, famed cognitive scientist Endel Tulvig remarked that our memory of ...

By Brian Campbell

The Kremlin Betrayal

Berger's mixture of fact and fiction grabs the reader from the very first page. In grimy postwar London, six ...

By Margaret Goldik

Mobile 9

Bill Haugland's face is familiar to many Montrealers: for nearly three decades he was news anchor on CFCF TV's ...

By Margaret Goldik

Papercut Heart

Papercut Heart collects several zines by Ian Sullivan Cant. The book is irresistible for its small size and ...

By Correy Baldwin

Drop-In

Dave Lapp's graphic novel Drop-In is a collection of autobiographical tales set in a Toronto drop-in ...

By Correy Baldwin