Patrick DeWitt has only just arrived on the Canadian literature scene, but his latest novel, The Sisters Brothers, is getting him noticed, winning the Governor General’s Award in 2011, and making the Giller Prize...

As a political studies major, I am bound by both interest and duty to the daily political news bites from both national and international levels of government. At times, however, the tedium of this sort of news can be truly underwhelming. It is a small wonder that citizens of Western...

A self-reflecting narrator, who prods as deeply into the lives of his readers as his own, writes genuinely—as a mirror for reality. In The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes constructs such a mirror. And through the course of his brief novel, does not let his reader look...

The iPod was invented in 2001, the cell phone in 1973, and the first powered airplane in 1903. Powered flight is over one hundred years old, and yet I am still enamored by it, in a way that I am not by the others. I love to fly. If I do not get a window seat, I will peer awkwardly over the...