Archives are often depicted as musty repositories, museum cellars, warehouses shoring up retaining walls against forgetfulness and the inevitable erosions of time. Objects deposited in the archives ar
From Toronto to Rome, Thailand to Japan, Domenico Capilongo's Subtitles captures the intricacies of multi-layered and often multicultural relationships. These short stories are subtle and understated,
In tight, compact words that resemble an unravelling DNA code of life, poet Robert Flanagan comtemplates mortality in his latest collection. Flanagan's poetry is essential, incantatory, and almost sha
Leper Tango is an end of millennium tale of an ambulance chasing lawyer who uses his ill-gotten gains to whore and drink in Paris, where he falls for a dead-end, suicidal femme fatale named Sheba. The
In this stunning book, Wade Bell writes on the level of Raymond Carver and Roberto Bolano. He knows exactly what to leave out to make a short story great. This is a book everyone who loves great ficti
Most contemporary poets wear their cultural and artistic influences on their sleeve. Picking up a book in an English language bookstore, it is easy to see where the poet is coming from, either geograp
In unflinching lyrics, Sue Chenette confronts her father’s depression and death. Probing memories, fingering mementos – a square nail, a sketch on a napkin – she examines them for what they may reveal
Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to the war in Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their armoury after a night of heavy drinking. The poet, whose downtown Toronto home
Although he has won plaudits and awards for work in film, television, and on stage, Tony Nardi?s most recent headlines have been earned by his Three Letters, in which he is the only actor who reads le
A collection of essays on one of Toronto? best-known and loved writers-politicians-social commentators. The essays on Austin Clarke? writings will be paired with a full-length poem that displays both
A sense of place has always dominated Louise McKinney? writing life. This poetry collection represents the best of her poetry written from the early 1980s to now. More than depicting mere geographical
From the jungles of Guyana to the urban jungle of Ottawa, Cyril Dabydeen's My Multi-Ethnic Friends & Other Stories highlights the struggles of immigrant life in a society that talks multiculturali
Drawing on history and family legend, Anthony Di Renzo presents a tale of progress and reaction, irony and paradox, in which the splendors of Caserta must yield to the wonders of the Crystal Palace. B
In this satirical take on the goings on in the halls of academia, Christian private-college style, Ricapito tells the story of Bert Russo, a naive professor who learns the hard way that making waves (
COCKEYED: askew, crooked, intoxicated, absurd; marked by bends or angles; incongruous, not straight. In other words, Jim Christy, Canada's most iconoclastic and irreverent poet, views this cockeyed wo
To read Broggiato, is to discover his devotion to the act of writing poetry that is intense, vibrant and lit from within; where the words resonate with our modern sensibility, where behind the words
The persistence of misconceptions about Italian-Canadian food culture raises many questions for us. Are we gluttonous, inebriate and too loud? Do we force-feed guests? Are we in fact food-obsessed? Ho
Pietro Corsi's Halifax combines objective history with acute personal observations to create a vibrant portrait of the city (and the country) that has witnessed the arrival of millions of immigrants f
James Deahl has been called "one of the ten or twenty finest poets writing in the English language." His poetry has been described as "precise articulations of landscape ..." producing "a highly charg
