Fiction: Novels

In Another Place, Not Here

Dionne Brand’s 1990 volume of poetry, No Language Is Neutral, sold over 6,000 copies, a remarkable number, even with a Governor General’s Award nomination. Her first novel will please those intrigued with Brand’s politically mediated, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Teaching Pigs to Sing

By Cordelia Strube

“Nothing, like something, happens anywhere,” the poet Philip Larkin said. At its best, Cordelia Strube’s third novel, Teaching Pigs to Sing, manages to make something out of nothing. Regrettably, this story of Rita Johnson, a ... Read More »

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★ Arousing the Goddess

By Tim Ward

Susan Sontag concludes her essay, “Against Interpretation,” with an admonition to critics: “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.” I thought of Sontag’s essay while reading Tim Ward’s wonderful new novel, ... Read More »

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The Gryphon

By Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock’s Griffin and Sabine series takes a new twist in The Gryphon with the introduction of two new correspondents, Matthew and Isabella. The book features letters and cards between Sabine and Matthew, Griffin and ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sex of the Stars

By Monique Proulx, Matt Cohen, trans.

One of the most interesting authors to emerge from Quebec in recent years, Monique Proulx writes for radio, television, and films in addition to her award-winning fiction. She won two literary prizes for her 1983 ... Read More »

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Honour

By Ann Decter

Ann Decter’s second novel, Honour, tells the stories of three friends in the midst of self-discovery. Honour is a feminist melting pot from which Decter pulls her characters Marie, Jane, and Shulamit Weiss and molds ... Read More »

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★ The Green Library

By Janice Kulyk Keefer

Every once in a while, an author effects a haunting. She creates a place, a time, a mood that endures past the “real time” required to read her work. In her new novel, The Green ... Read More »

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All Families Are Psychotic

By Douglas Coupland

With All Families Are Psychotic author Douglas Coupland has completed a seven-novel mission: he’s finally moved his characters out of the rumpus room.Rumpus rooms have always figured prominently in Coupland’s universe of protracted, distracted youngishness. ... Read More »

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Losing It

By Alan Cumyn

Bob Sterling is the Edgar Allen Poe specialist at a Canadian university. He dumped his first wife for front-row student Julia, and now that marriage, too, is adrift because Bob lusts for yet another student, ... Read More »

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Mad Dog

By Kelly Watt

The plot of Mad Dog, Kelly Watt’s first novel, seems designed to be a quick pitch: it is 1964, and 14-year-old Sheryl-Anne is living with her uncle Fergus on his apple orchard, deep in the ... Read More »

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