Reviews

Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood

By Shannon Cowan, Fiona Tinwei Lam, and Cathy Stonehouse, eds.

Double Lives, an anthology of essays about the occasionally warring roles of writer and mother, is not for everyone. Though much of the book will appeal to busy mothers of all kinds, on the whole ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Join the Revolution, Comrade: Journeys and Essays

By Charles Foran

Charles Foran’s first collection of essays is an eclectic compilation of travel and literary writings that reveals a preoccupation, not always clearly articulated, with establishing a connection to the present age and feeling the truth ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City

By Mark Kingwell

There is a new urban game in town called parkour. An invention of French youth, parkour is the art of jumping, tumbling, and diving in public spaces, up and down steps, across roofs, through plazas ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Reference

Skin Room

By Sara Tilley

Sara Tilley’s debut novel is many of the things its catalogue bumph claims – unflinching, sharply realized, as evocative as poetry. Or at least half of the novel is, anyway. Tilley relates – with a ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No Beautiful Shore

By Beverly Stone

Set on a small island off the coast of Newfoundland, Beverly Stone’s first novel is a melancholy tale. The narrative follows two teenage girls who aspire to move to Toronto and start their lives anew: ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Barrington Street Blues

By Anne Emery

After reading this third installment of the curious adventures of Halifax lawyer (and occasional blues player) Monty Collins, I couldn’t help wondering how Collins would fare if he found himself at the imaginative mercy of ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Quintet

By Douglas Arthur Brown

Douglas Arthur Brown’s Quintet is deceptively simple. In form, it’s a journal passed through the hands of three men: Cameron, Rory, and Adrian Hines. The three men are identical triplets who realize while attending their ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Cellist of Sarajevo

By Steven Galloway

Vancouver’s Steven Galloway is a precocious writer of astonishing talent and creative imagination whose third novel lives up, in every respect, to the high bar set by his first two. The Cellist of Sarajevo captures ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mercury Under My Tongue

By Sylvain Trudel; Sheila Fischman, trans.

Death comes for us all. Mercury Under My Tongue, the new novel from Governor General’s Award-winning Quebec writer Sylvain Trudel, tackles this inevitability head-on, through the eyes of an atheistic teenage narrator spending his final ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister’s Life in the Canadian Bush

By Mark Frutkin

In 1970, like a hippie version of Henry David Thoreau, Mark Frutkin rejected the Vietnam war and left his native Ohio for Canada to live off the land, settling in a cabin in the woods ... Read More »

June 23, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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