Kaie Kellough’s Maple Leaf Rag alludes in its title to the most famous composition by the brilliant ...
By Bert Almon
Reviews
Johanna Skibsrud’s approach to the poem often seems to be, “Why use two pages when three would do?” Her book ...
By Bert Almon
Larissa Andrusyshyn’s book is fresh and original in its language, which is drawn largely from science. Buried in ...
By Bert Almon
It is heartening when poets engage with philosophy or science. Kate Hall’s The Certainty Dream (reviewed in ...
By Bert Almon
Someone reading People magazine might conclude that Tom Cruise and Sandra Bullock run Hollywood. While they ...
By Yves Engler
Simon Brault is CEO of the National Theatre School and Vice-Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts. He has been ...
By Elise Moser
She had eyes you could get lost in and the kind of voice bankers leave their wives for, so when she asked me if I would take the case, how could I refuse? It didn't hurt that there was some money in it for me, too. The case? To dig into the life of a man who'd been dead for forty-two years.
By Michael Blair
Such a Good Education is a work so fluid and compelling that it may be best consumed, like a fortifying ...
By Aparna Sanyal
Kent Stetson’s debut novel The World Above the Sky features Knights Templar fleeing threats from papal Rome ...
By Desirée Enderer
On a sunny day in a park, with an eclectic and vocal crowd as witness, an unlikely event occurs: a pelican eats a ...
By Vanessa Bonneau
Piers’ Desire, the third novel by Montreal-based writer Marianne Ackerman (Jump, Matters of Hart) ...
By Sarah Lolley
Jeffrey Moore’s third novel, The Extinction Club, features a cast of characters who are unstable at best ...
By Eric Boodman