Hello … Hello: A Romantic Satire

With influences as diverse and seemingly mismatched as Greek tragedy and mid-century Hollywood musicals, Karen Hines’s latest satire is a bizarrely compelling work that may not be for all readers. A followup to Hines’s first ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ In a World Created by a Drunken God

By Drew Hayden Taylor

In his latest work, playwright Drew Hayden Taylor adheres to the dictates of classic, riveting theatre by presenting stellar characters struggling with hardcore moral questions, while inviting the audience to continue the dialogue after the ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Play Out the Match

By Michael Knox

Play Out the Match is one of the ballsiest debut collections in recent memory. Populated with barroom brawlers, strippers, dope-smokers, blue-collar workers, and bare-knuckle writers, these poems crackle with a masculine energy and a cocky ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Anatomy of Keys

By Steven Price

Anatomy of Keys is Victoria-based poet and teacher Steven Price’s first book. A poetic biography of Harry Houdini, its closest generic analogues in Canadian literature are Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Book of Longing

By Leonard Cohen

Much of Leonard Cohen’s work (and most of his life) has been characterized by a vacillation between two poles. Cohen has always embraced the dynamic tension between the opposing forces of the holy and the ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

The Interpreter of Silences

By Jean McNeil

Despite a title that evokes emptiness, there is too much going on in Jean McNeil’s novel The Interpreter of Silences. The book is chock-full of drama, with barns burning, cars crashing, and drunken teenage girls ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Joyland

By Emily Schultz

Everyone can relate to the teenage summer: hours spent in listless anticipation of something better. Agonizingly dull days rolling into even duller nights, where it seems as though adulthood will never come, sex is so ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Small Ceremonies

By Carol Shields

Carol Shields’ debut novel, Small Ceremonies (1976), is about a “modern” woman named Judith Gill who balances a budding career as a writer with the more traditional life of a wife and mother. When Judith ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tenderness of Wolves

By Stef Penney

Stef Penney’s debut novel is a complex story centred on a murder in the small Canadian settlement of Dove River. The story opens in 1867 with the discovery of a dead body and a missing ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Water for Elephants

By Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants tells the story of Jacob Jankowski and his encounter with a circus train during the height of the Great Depression. The novel is a vivid and intensively researched account of the times ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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