Out of Cleveland

With Out of Cleveland, poet and academic Lolette Kuby has produced a promising and occasionally brilliant first collection of short stories.The book’s first tale, “Ninety East,” weaves back and forth between the minds of two ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are

By Andrew Cohen

New books by well-known journalists and authors Roy MacGregor and Andrew Cohen, as well as a revised anthology from the Dominion Institute, all attempt to examine the current Canadian zeitgeist. It may be an impossibly ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Girls Who Saw Everything

By Sean Dixon

In fiction, homage is a tricky undertaking. Should an author indulge readers of the original, or satisfy those as yet unfamiliar? In The Girls Who Saw Everything, a re-setting of The Epic of Gilgamesh in ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Outlander

By Gil Adamson

What was Gil Adamson thinking when she titled her novel The Outlander? What was Anansi thinking? After all, that’s the name of the first book in Diana Gabaldon’s wildly successful time-travel series that spirits a ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Augustino and the Choir of Destruction

By Marie-Claire Blais; Nigel Spencer, trans.

Marie-Claire Blais, one of Quebec’s most prolific and celebrated writers, delivers the third volume in a prize-winning trilogy. Augustino and the Choir of Destruction is a dense and daring apocalyptic literary vision. Set on an ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Me, Chi and Bruce Lee

By Brian Preston

Brian Preston is a writer, not a fighter. So when he was asked to do a book about martial arts, he blanched. But not for long.A self-declared “wimpy, forty-something wuss,” Preston decided to spend a ... Read More »

July 23, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Going Around with Bachelors

By Agnes Walsh

St. John’s poet laureate Agnes Walsh is also an actor, a playwright, and a storyteller. Appropriately for an author with such a background, her second collection is accompanied by a CD. The disc was not ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Making Bones Walk

By Alex Boyd

Making Bones Walk is the first full-length collection for Toronto poet Alex Boyd. It’s a promising debut, solid, trim, and occasionally arresting (especially “Twenty Three Minutes for Everything,” the one standout poem in the book), ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

High Speed Through Shoaling Water

By Tom Wayman

Political proselytizing has been something of a vocation for Calgary-based writer and teacher Tom Wayman since the publication of his first book in 1973. In High Speed Through Shoaling Water, his 17th collection, Wayman cleaves ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Black River

By Kenneth Sherman

If Wayman is a verbal spendthrift, Toronto poet and professor Kenneth Sherman, in his 11th book, errs on the side of laconic sparseness. Black River is one long poem, a suite in 60 parts about ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

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