★ The Radiant City

Lauren B. Davis’s much-praised first novel, A Stubborn Season, took place in Depression-era Toronto, in hard times made harder by alcoholism and mental illness. Her superb new novel is set in present-day Paris, where the ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Man in a Distant Field

By Theresa Kishkan

Declan O’Malley is a man on the run. O’Malley, the protagonist of Theresa Kishkan’s new novel, A Man in a Distant Field, is an Irish schoolmaster who flees his small ancestral family farm after the ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tenor of Love

By Mary di Michele

Like scratchy ancient recordings remastered and yellowed photographs restored, Mary di Michele’s Tenor of Love gives us an Enrico Caruso as bright and clear as prose can render him. Her Caruso comes alive as a ... Read More »

January 17, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Raymond and Hannah

By Stephen Marche

When asked in a recent interview about his legacy as a movie director, Woody Allen replied that his work, despite the praise and respect it has received, has had little direct influence on younger filmmakers. ... Read More »

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Write Across Canada: Mapping the Country in 19 Chapters

By Peter Schneider, ed.

Ever since literature started imagining the sex lives of ordinary people, readers have been flocking to stories that portray couples working out the nuts and bolts of day-to-day romance. Take the confused Bruce, half of ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

4 X 4

By Wayne Tefs

Wayne Tefs’ eighth novel starts out in a bar at the Winnipeg airport on the afternoon of Good Friday. Clinton Dokic is waiting for a flight home to Thompson, Manitoba, where his wife is about ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Industrial Magic

By Kelley Armstrong

Casting spells is quaint, but for material boys and girls, conjuring up private jets, SUVs, and luxury hotels is even more enchanting. Why not use magic to make something other than mere coins appear out ... Read More »

December 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off

By John Lavery

If John Lavery’s stories weren’t so thrillingly careening as to resist description by a single word, “frenetic” might be a good choice. But it’s not. You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off is quick in pacing ... Read More »

December 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What We All Long For

By Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand opens her latest novel with a wide shot of Toronto. A city at once mythic and ordinary, virtual yet earthily corporeal, it hovers above the 43rd parallel. Flight paths and Internet signals cross ... Read More »

December 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All Times Have Been Modern

By Elisabeth Harvor

Elisabeth Harvor’s second novel opens with protagonist Kay Oleski on the verge of realizing her first adolescent sexual experience when the moment is ruined by the unexpected return home of her mother. In the next ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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