★ French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date with Quebec

Of all the books that have already been written about the Conservative Party’s 2006 electoral breakthrough, Chantal Hébert’s French Kiss is the most useful to understanding not only Stephen Harper’s victory but the circumstances that ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Types of Canadian Women, Volume II

By K.I. Press

Ragged Pen gathers together talks on poetry and memory given by Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne Simpson, and Jan Zwicky at the 2005 Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference and fleshes them ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory

By various

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Paper Trail

By Arleen Paré

With her first novel, Arleen Paré wants to tell you that office life is bleak. It’s monotonous and unfulfilling and you do the same things over and over and … well, you get the idea. ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Five-Hole Stories

By Dave Bidini

When hockey wordsmith and Rheostatics guitarist Dave Bidini enters a rink, he doesn’t see sticks, pucks, nets, or ice; he sees metaphors. This can be fun, for a while.In this quickie read, Bidini offers up ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Sugar Bush & Other Stories

By Jenn Farrell

While reading Jenn Farrell’s debut collection of short fiction, Sugar Bush, I began to wonder if she had gone to my high school. Her characters seemed eerily familiar. Did we know the same people? Had ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Burma Effect

By Michael E. Rose

Michael E. Rose certainly has the bona fides to write about a globe-hopping journalist who does a little intelligence work on the side. Rose is a Canadian journalist whose work has taken him around the ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Suburban Pornography and Other Stories

By Matthew Firth

The first story in Matthew Firth’s new collection is entitled “Sheila Crawford Sucks Cocks.” Firth is a confrontational writer, and by placing this story at the very start he is clearly issuing both a warning ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Strike

By Anand Mahadevan

The Strike casts the reader into 1980s India, where 12-year-old Hari must make sense of a world in which borders between languages, classes, and religions are still part of everyday reality. The narrative opens with ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Beyond the Blue

By Andrea MacPherson

If anyone ever wondered what drove so many Scots from the romantic land of Robbie Burns, MacPherson’s new novel provides us with answers aplenty. Readers begin to get a clear picture of conditions by the ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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