The latest stage of the trial against alleged serial killer Robert William Pickton wrapped up Monday (November 26) when the defence presented its summary comments to the jury.Jury...
There won’t be swords at this year’s Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival, but there will be comic novelist Howard Jacobson (Kalooki Nights) coming all the way from England for...
What is Clive Barker thinking? His latest, the short horror novel Mister B. Gone, is so introspective, so filled with interruption and qualification and self-doubt and such, it’s...
This leads, naturally, to questioning whether books contain any enduring content at all and, ultimately, to the most unsettling paradox: this book asks if books have any function...
Chabon and McCall Smith, our modern-day Dickenses, inherit different strands of Dickens’s craft. Chabon’s work to date has been naturalistic, urban, New Yorker–y. Here, he...
In Arsenals of Folly, Richard Rhodes sifts the half-century between World War II and the dissolution of the USSR to understand the hysteria that brought the supergiants (and the...
Protagonist Stanley Moss is at death's door as the novel opens, disappointed by but resigned to (how Canadian) his own demise. Then: "There was within him a pressure so great he...
