De Niro’s Game

There’s an adjective that has too long languished in the negative camp of book reviews. I’d like to reclaim it. Calling prose “flat” is usually one of the less hurtful ways of saying that a ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lost Girls and Love Hotels

By Catherine Hanrahan

As fascinating as contemporary Japanese culture is to a seemingly large segment of the North American population, there are only a small handful of Canadian-penned novels set in the modern-day land of the rising sun. ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Madame Zee

By Pearl Luke

The real-life story of the mysterious Madame Zee receives an intriguing treatment in this novel by Pearl Luke. What is curious is that the fictionalized details are almost more compelling than the actual facts, which ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

jPod

By Douglas Coupland

Like its 1995 predecessor, Microserfs, Douglas Coupland’s latest foray into the annals of extreme contemporaneousness delves into the world of a group of young programmers, this time substituting a Vancouver-based video-game design company for Microsoft. ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Widdershins

By Charles de Lint

With Widdershins, Ottawa writer Charles de Lint returns to the fictional city of Newford for what may be a world-altering showdown between the ancient North American immortals and spirits – based on First Nations tradition ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Uninvited Guest

By John Degen

When his old pal Stan dies, Tony inherits his summer job of escorting hockey’s greatest trophy on its worldwide engagements, never letting the Stanley Cup out of his sight. One such assignment takes him to ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Over Prairie Trails

By Frederick Philip Grove

If, as Northrop Frye has suggested, the Canadian character has largely been shaped by the vast distances that separate us and by our almost stubborn efforts to stay together across those distances, then Frederick Philip ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Song of Kahunsha

By Anosh Irani

Anosh Irani’s second novel, The Song of Kahunsha, is the heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful story of a young orphan living on the streets of Bombay. The book is set amidst the racial rioting of 1993, ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Vices of My Blood

By Maureen Jennings

Maureen Jennings’ new novel, Vices of My Blood, picks up where her previous William Murdoch mystery left off. Only two months have passed since the end of Night’s Child, when Murdoch’s lover, Enid Jones, left ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea

By Pan Bouyoucas

"The bridge between the world of the dead and the world of the living is the sleeper’s mind," Pan Bouyoucas writes at the beginning of his novel The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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