All Day Breakfast By Adam Lewis Schroeder Douglas and McIntyre 378 pages, $22.95 Reviewed by Aaron Shepard Zombies, as cultural icons go, are surprisingly durable and versatile: they can do straight-up horror or gross-out comedy horror. And they seem to have something more to say about us humans than the one-note, sexy vampires. Their shambling […]
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The Road Narrows as You Go By Lee Henderson Hamish Hamilton 512 pp. $32.95 Reviewed by Aaron Shepard Set almost entirely in the mid-1980s, The Road Narrows as You Go is both satire and Künstlerroman, chronicling the rise and fall of Wendy Ashbubble, a budding cartoonist who dreams of a career like her hero, Charles […]
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The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway By Arno Kopecky Douglas & McIntyre 264 pages, $26.95 Reviewed by Aaron Shepard Part rousing adventure and travelogue, part exposé, The Oil Man and the Sea follows journalist and travel writer Arno Kopecky and photographer Ilja Herb as they sail from Victoria up B.C.’s central […]
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Silence, on joue! (A Time for Us) Angèle Dubeau & La Pieta (2012) Game Music Reviewed by Aaron Shepard Angèle Dubeau, a stellar violinist, is one of Canada’s most accomplished and celebrated classical musicians. Along with La Pieta, the all-female ensemble that has accompanied her since 1997, she has recorded rich, exuberant interpretations of composers […]
