Anthologies

Revenge: A Noir Anthology About Getting Even

By Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers, eds.

It’s tempting to think of Insomniac Press’s series of noir fiction anthologies (of which Revenge is the third, after Iced and Hard Boiled Love) as a kind of corrective to the swaths of mushy, middlebrow ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Story-Wallah!: A Celebration of South Asian Fiction

By Shyam Selvadurai, ed.

It’s a shame the word “diaspora” isn’t more commonly used. Because as Sri-Lankan born Toronto novelist Shyam Selvadurai points out in his excellent introduction, diaspora – with its adjective “diasporic,” both from the Greek for ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy

By Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan, eds.

Author Nalo Hopkinson and science fiction scholar Uppinder Mehan have cultivated this anthology of new short stories from emerging and established postcolonial writers all over the world. The 19 unique stories here are framed by ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

In the Clear: A Contemporary Canadian Poetry Anthology

By Allan Forrie, Patrick O’Rourke, Glen Sorestad, eds.

For decades, Saskatchewan-based Thistledown Press has been publishing poetry collections by well-known and lesser-known Canadian writers. The editors of In the Clear have exploited the press’s archival wealth to compile a large anthology whose purpose ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Selected Stories

By Alice Munro

We are for some reason as a people given to the extraordinarily proficient creation of short things. At sketch comedy we are unparalleled, and our short films, live-action and animated, far surpass the quality of ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant

By Mavis Gallant

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Midnight Hour: Canadian Accounts of Eerie Experiences

By John Robert Colombo

Is Canada a scary place? Our nation’s “master gatherer,” John Robert Colombo, certainly seems to think so. The veteran anthologizer and storyteller has already compiled a vast array of books on Canadian examples of the ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

All I Thought About Was Baseball: Writings on a Canadian Pastime

By William Humber and John St. James, eds.

In All I Thought About Was Baseball, editors William Humber and John St. James make reference to the intimate relationship this country has with “the game.” Their insight that this connection stems from the “longing ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs

By George Fetherling, ed.

George Fetherling argues in his surprisingly cantankerous preface to The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs that Canadians are psychologically predisposed to dealing imaginatively with their pasts. Compared with the traditional American emphasis of “lighting out ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Trent Frayne’s All Stars: An Anthology of Canada’s Best Sportswriting

By Trent Frayne, ed.

It has all the makings of a champion: an anthology of Canadian sports writing selected by a master. But Trent Frayne’s All Stars reads like a marketing department idea sabotaged by weak execution. It’s far ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

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