March 31, 2008 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction
If you’ve ever wondered about the relative abundance of pubic hair among women and men of the First Nations, you don’t have to feel alone anymore. Me Sexy, an anthology of 13 essays on the ... Read More »
While the traditional handwritten love letter may have lost its preeminence in the electronic age, editors Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter have attempted to resurrect the art of literary lovemaking with this anthology. Each of ... Read More »
March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction
It is unlikely 100 fine short stories are written per year. The form requires distillation and hard work, the exclusion of the irrelevant and microscopic enhancements of what’s crucial. Queer View Mirror 2 is a ... Read More »
October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Anthologies
he Penguin Book of Canadian Women’s Short StoriesLisa Moore, ed.; $32 cloth 0-670-065552-8, 360 pp., 6 x 9, Penguin Canada, Sept. The only inexplicable thing about this superb anthology of writing by Canadian women is ... Read More »
December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies
Reading this collection of essays and memoirs on the vagaries, challenges, and joys of the writing life, a composite portrait of the Canadian Author slowly emerges. Curious, slightly earnest, lovingly self-absorbed but concerned with the ... Read More »
July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies
“Literature has been the means through which I have learned to understand who I am and who I might be,” writes Donna Bailey Nurse in the introduction to this, the first major anthology of black ... Read More »
May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies
It is a paradoxical truth that explaining why something is funny is intrinsically unfunny. It is perhaps for this reason that Drew Hayden Taylor, the editor and compiler of Me Funny, a motley collection of ... Read More »
January 30, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies
Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman selected 23 of the best recent works of Canadian speculative short fiction and poetry, from both established and emerging writers, moulding an anthology that places the genre firmly alongside fantastical ... Read More »
October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction
At a time when it seems the women’s movement in Canada has all but evaporated, along comes a book to remind us what great strides this country’s feminists achieved in the latter part of the ... Read More »
March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies
Paul and Audrey Grescoe’s lively and emotional new collection, The Book of Love Letters, is like a big box of the very best chocolate. The letters are rich with emotion and wit, but they should ... Read More »
February 14, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies