The Third Five Years: Reviews 2007-2011

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8 x 10 by Michael Turner The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj Anathem by Neal Stephenson The Antagonist by Lynn Coady Asylum by André Alexis Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat Automatic World by Struan Sinclair Axis by Robert Charles Wilson Bang Crunch by Neil Smith Black Man by Richard Morgan Blackstrap Hawco by Kenneth J. Harvey Boldface Names by Shinan Govani Bookweird by Paul Glennon Brother Dumb by Sky Gilbert Beautiful Children by Charles Bock C by Tom McCarthy The Canal by Lee Rourke Can'tLit Ed. by Richard Rosenbaum Carte Blanche by Jeffrey Deaver Cherry Electra by Matt Duggan Combat Camera by A. J. Somerset The Commons by Matthew Hughes Coureurs de Bois by Bruce MacDonald The Craigslist Murders by Brenda Cullerton The Cube People by Christian McPherson Dance With Snakes by Horacio Castellanos Moya Daniel O'Thunder by Ian Weir Darwin's Bastards Ed. by Zsuzsi Gartner Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave The Death of Donna Whalen by Michael Winter The Divinity Gene by Matthew J. Trafford Dog Eat Rat by Tom Walmsley Dragonflies by Grant Buday Duma Key by Stephen King The End of the Alphabet by C. S. Richardson Eva's Threepenny Theatre by Andrew Steinmetz Every Lost Country by Stephen Heighton Evidence by Ian Colford Exit Ghost by Philip Roth Fall by Colin McAdam February by Lisa Moore The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter by Brent Hayward Filaria by Brent Hayward Fishing for Bacon by Michael Davie The Flush of Victory by Ray Smith The Frankenstein Murders by Kathlyn Bradshaw Generation A by Douglas Coupland Girl Crazy by Russell Smith The Glass Harmonica by Russell Wangersky A Good Fall by Ha Jin Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino Hall of Best Knowledge by Ray Fenwick Heaven Is Small by Emily Schultz Hitting the Charts by Leon Rooke Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow Horror Story by Robert Boyczuk How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Just After Sunset by Stephen King The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper Kiss Her Goodbye by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins The Lost Highway by David Adams Richards Major Karnage by Gord Zajac Man in the Dark by Paul Auster The Meagre Tarmac by Clark Blaise Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones The Mole Chronicles by Andy Brown Monstrous Affections by David Nickle The Murder Stone by Louise Penny The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk Nexus: Ascension by Robert Boyczuk Noah's Turn by Ken Finkleman Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan One Bloody Thing After Another by Joey Comeau Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski People Live Still in Cashtown Corners by Tony Burgess The Perfect Order of Things by David Gilmour Planet Reese by Cordelia Strube Player One by Douglas Coupland Poe's Children Ed. by Peter Straub The Poetry Lesson by Andrei Codrescu The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk Ravenna Gets by Tony Burgess Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 by Tim Hamilton Real World by Natsuo Kirino Remainder by Tom McCarthy The Road by Cormac McCarthy Selected Blackouts by John Goldbach The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Shining at the Bottom of the Sea by Stephen Marche Solar by Ian McEwan Stories Ed. by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio Stripmalling by Jon Paul Fiorentino Stunt by Claudia Dey Suddenly Something Happened by Jimmy Beaulieu This Will All End in Tears by Joe Ollman Thought You Were Dead by Terry Griggs The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark by Christopher Meades Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace A Week of This by Nathan Whitlock The World More  Full of Weeping by Robert J. Wiersema You Comma Idiot by Doug Harris The Young in Their Country by Richard Cumyn Zero Gravity by Sharon English Zero History by William Gibson Black River by Kenneth Sherman The Essential Don Coles Ed. by Robyn Sarah The Essential George Johnston Ed. by Robyn Sarah The Essential P. K. Page Ed. by Arlene Lampert and Théa Gray Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms by George Murray Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets Ed. by Zachariah Wells Open Air Bindery by David Hickey Pure Product by Jason Guriel What if red ran out by Katia Grubisic Where We Might Have Been by Don Coles Second Opinions brief reviews of award-winning books The Gathering by Anne Enright The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

Against Thought: Writing Iraq The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby Age of Betrayal by Jack Beatty The Age of Confession by Neil Bissoondath The Age of Movies Ed. by Sanford Schwartz Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker Angel of Vengeance by Ana Siljak The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton The Authenticity Hoax by Andrew Potter Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Harold Schechter and David Everitt  Bambi vs. Godzilla by David Mamet The Bandido Massacre by Peter Edwards The Big Short by Michael Lewis Black Mass by John Gray Blood River by Tim Butcher Boomerang by Michael Lewis The Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature Ed. by Cora Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller Canadian Literature in English by W. J. Keith Carbon Shift Ed by Thomas Homer-Dixon Censored 2009 Ed. by Peter Phillips and Andrew Roth Censored 2011 Ed. by Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips Cheap by Ellen Ruppel Shell Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey Civilization by Niall Ferguson Columbine by Dave Cullen Crass Struggle by R. T. Naylor The Crimes of Paris by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen The Dark Side by Jane Mayer Dead Certain by Robert Draper Death in the Haymarket by James Green The Death of American Virtue by Ken Gormley Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges The Devil's Gentleman by Harold Schechter Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee The Eleventh Day by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton The Enemy at Home by Dinesh D'Souza The Ethical Imagination by Margaret Somerville The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick A Fair Country by John Ralston Saul The Fall of the House of Bush by Craig Unger The Fatal Gift of Beauty by Nina Burleigh The First Family by Mike Dash Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Future Babble by Dan Gardner The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex by Mark Kermode The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi "Have You Seen . . . ?" by David Thomson The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene Hitler's Empire by Mark Mazower The Hollywood Economist by Edward Jay Epstein Hooked on Canadian Books by T. F. Rigelhof How to Be a Bush Pilot by Claudia Dey How Fiction Works by James Wood How the West Was Lost by Dambisa Moyo Ice Passage by Brian Payton The Immortalization Commission by John Gray The Indian Mutiny by Julian Spilsbury Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman Invaders from the North by John Bell The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders I.O.U. by John Lanchester It's Not News, It's Fark by Drew Curtis Kenk by Richard Poplak The Lily Pond by Mike Barnes Literary Celebrity in Canada by Lorraine York Lost in Cyburbia by James Harkin Lost in the Meritocracy by Walter Kirn Lowering Higher Education by James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar The Man Who Sold the World by William Kleinknecht Marshall McLuhan by Douglas Coupland Marx's Das Kapital by Francis Wheen McMafia by Misha Glenny The Mess They Made by Gwynne Dyer The Moment of Psycho by David Thomson A New Kind of Monster by Timothy Appleby Novels in Three Lines by Felix Fénéon On the Farm by Stevie Cameron On the Wealth of Nations by P. J. O'Rourke Other People's Money by Neil Forsyth with Elliot Castro Plato's Republic by Simon Blackburn Poe by Peter Ackroyd Popular Crime by Bill James The Qur'an by Bruce Lawrence Reality Hunger by David Shields A Report on the Afterlife of Culture by Stephen Henighan The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown The Schreiber Theory by David Kipen Selected Essays by Clark Blaise Shakespeare Revealed by René Weis The Sheikh's Batmobile by Richard Poplak Shock Value by Jason Zinoman A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense by Norman Baillargeon A Short History of Celebrity by Fred Inglis Shut Up He Explained by John Metcalf The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe Spent by Geoffrey Miller The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard Storyteller by Donald Sturrock Tar Sands by Andrew Nikiforuk Tear Down This Myth by Will Bunch The Three of Us by Julia Blackburn True Crime: An American Anthology Ed. by Harold Schechter The Truth About Canada by Mel Hurtig Uncivil Society by Stephen Kotkin The Use and Abuse of Literature by Marjorie Garber Vanished Smile by R. A. Scotti Visual Shock by Michael Kammen Web of Deceit by Barry Lando What Good Are the Arts? by John Carey What Is America? by Ronald Wright What Is Stephen Harper Reading? by Yann Martel Who Killed Jackie Bates? by Bill Waiser Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller by Jeff Rubin A Wicked Company by Philipp Blom You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide by Glenn Kay