June 2007
This translation of Te malade, toi! is a perfect example of the strengths of the graphic novel medium. It ...
June 2007
In 1979 André Vanasse, then in his late thirties, was in charge of inviting Gabrielle Roy to a reception at the ...
May 2007
Mazo de la Roche's Jalna won the Atlantic Monthly-Little, Brown Award for Best Novel in 1927 and became an ...
May 2007
Caitlin Donovan, heroine of Sands Motel and Cutting Corners, has gone through gut-wrenching ...
May 2007
Reading the blurb on the back cover of a novel can be a tricky affair. Any mention of torture, Honduras, and ...
May 2007
Optique lends credence to Susan Sontag's declaration that "to collect photographs is to collect the world." ...
May 2007
Dead Cold is the sequel to Penny's successful debut novel, Still Life. She has created a complex and ...
May 2007
The First Thing We Do vividly evokes the Montreal of late 1991. Linguistic tensions are running high, and ...
May 2007
In Lullabies for Little Criminals, debut novelist Heather O'Neill tells the story of Baby, a motherless ...
May 2007
Suddenly the Minotaur, winner of the 2003 Prix Anne-Hébert in its original French-language edition, is an ...
May 2007
Human, the fifth novel by one-time Governor General's award winner Aube, is the story of an encounter ...
May 2007
Ryan Arnold's greatest accomplishment in this collection is a genuine depiction of the sad-sacks of the world, ...