Ian McAllister’s deep love for the animals is palpable, and throughout the well-written account, we come to know and care for them

Stephen Colbert's I Am America is as hypnotic and hilarious as The Colbert Report

Wall and Piece documents a large number of Banksy's spray-bombed images, highlighting their humorous but pointedly subversive messages

Abstract Painting i Canada meets most of the demands of a discerning coffee table: lavish illustrations, sumptuous production, and a scholarly yet accessible text

Through Conversations With Woody Allen, Eric Lax reveals how hard-working the nebbish director really is

Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations From the Golden Age of American Cookery sticks to what James Lileks knows best: cooking gone terribly, terribly wrong

Surveying Tam Irving's ceramic work, Carol E. Mayer discovers it's not so much art versus craft as modern versus postmodern

Bunnies, bigheads, broncos, and Bart fill the illustrated pages of this year's gift suggestions

The city has announced the four finalists for this year's City of Vancouver Book Award. The shortlisted titles are: Grant Arnold and Michael Turner's Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs (Douglas and McIntyre); Anita Rau Badami's Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (Knopf Canada); Brett Josef Grubisic's The Age of Cities (Arsenal Pulp Press); Michael Kluckner's Vancouver Remembered (Whitecap Books) Mayor Sam Sullivan will present the $2,000 prize on January 29.