Drina Bridge

The disturbingly graphic violence in the introductory paragraphs of Drina Bridge might give pause to the faint of heart or weak of stomach. Nevertheless, readers who forge on with this debut novel will be amply ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

This Will All End in Tears

By Joe Ollmann

First, a confession: I have never been able to accept the term “graphic novel.” The label has always struck me as a pretentious and self-aggrandizing way of referring to comic books. So it was with ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Graphica

Ysabel

By Guy Gavriel Kay

With this new novel, Toronto writer Guy Gavriel Kay returns to a more mythic storytelling approach, following several books that embraced the historical over the fantastic. This is not, however, the epic fantasy of the ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Empress of Asia

By Adam Lewis Schroeder

Five years ago, B.C. author Adam Lewis Schroeder published a stunning first collection of short fiction. The stories in Kingdom of Monkeys showed an amazing range; they were technically sophisticated, darkly funny, strangely moving, full ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rootbound

By Grant Buday

This new novel by B.C. author Grant Buday is a dismal, depressing affair that seems to enjoy wallowing in the various misfortunes and tribulations of its characters, in particular those of its protagonist.Willie LeMat is ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Charles the Bold

By Yves Beauchemin; Wayne Grady, trans.

Last spring, the Montreal writer David Homel raised a furor in the Quebec literary community when he suggested that Quebec writing in French is a quiet literature that doesn’t travel well. The family and its ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lanzmann and Other Stories

By Damian Tarnopolsky

The chances that a collection of short fiction will contain nothing but solid, well-written, and engaging tales are, regrettably, slight. Lanzmann and Other Stories, Damian Tarnopolsky’s debut, is a collection with several winning pieces, a ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Famished Lover

By Alan Cumyn

The time is the end of the 1930s, and Ramsey Crome, the narrator of Alan Cumyn’s latest novel, is starved for love and beauty, just as he was physically starved as a POW during the ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Homeland

By Paul William Roberts

Paul William Roberts, the popular literary journalist best known for A War Against Truth, his searing indictment of the war in Iraq, last tried his hand at fiction in 1994. Early news had it that ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Skids

By Cathleen With

“Skids” is the slang term for street kids or runaways living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Many of them are native Canadians, many are HIV-positive, and many are addicted to heroin, crystal meth, or alcohol. They ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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