Editor Pick: Books

This poet has the ability to not only bring elements of the human condition to life, but puts our lives into their proper perspective.

A novel to read slowly, to relish its depiction of a slower, gentler world.

If a maid service could clean her house in an hour or two a week, there was no reason why her family of six could not do the same.

In our ever photographic world, where satellite technology can reproduce an image from anywhere on the planet, and cell phone cameras are as plentiful as pocket change, it is hard to imagine any mundane image not captured by the lens of a camera. In the huge and exhaustive new book The World’s …

Having written what may well be the finest and certainly the funniest theatrical farce of the last half of the 20th Century, Noises Off, Michael Frayne has now gone and done the same for the novel. Skios may not have the slamming doors, but even without them it is one …

Canadian journalist and mystery author Rosemary McCracken is here today to talk to us about her latest suspense novel, Black Water, just released by Imajin Books. Born and raised in Montreal, she has worked on newspapers across Canada as a reporter, arts reviewer, editorial writer and editor. She is now …

A fine collection of essays that started life as book reviews.