REVIEW: CHARLES PORTIS: COLLECTED WORKS
Article By Andrew Hood
There's nothing quite so funny or compelling as someone who's certain. Certainty can make one look either commanding or foolish, and the richness of such a quality--especially in a book's main character--is how that appearance can shift depending on company or circumstance.
REVIEW: THE HUMAN SCALE
Article By Andrew Hood
Lista's reportage of these ten crimes is far from sensational. Instead, there's something almost banal about the incidents in these stories. Not banal in the sense of boring or unimportant, but banal in the way that most aspects of human life have a way of taking on a humdrum pallor.
INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY
Article By Staff
This year marks our 50th aniversay and we'll be announcing plans for that fête soon. In the meantime, this Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day and we'd love to see you out to get the celebration started. Along with a myriad of publisher freebies, we'll have free Bookshelf totes with any purchase over $60. Come on out to support Canadian bookstores and Canadian books!
REVIEW: THE MARIGOLD
Article By Andrew Hood
In The Marigold, you could cut into a soup can and then slice a tomato with how sharp the line between dystopia and reality is.
REVIEW: LONE WOMEN
Article By Andrew Hood
For a nation that struggles so to free its boots from the sinking, stinking muck of its own history, it's odd to think that reinvention was the core of the USA's founding.