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Invisible Armies

By Jon Evans

Jon Evans’ previous two novels featured travellers who had an amazing ability to get themselves into all sorts of trouble while we watched them run for their lives and outsmart their attackers. Evans has a ... Read More »

June 26, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Miss Lamp

By Chris Ewart

There is no enduring tradition of experimental fiction in Canada. Despite the perennial appearance of Leonard Cohen’s second novel, Beautiful Losers, on university English literature syllabuses, and despite the heroic efforts of a small handful ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

De Niro’s Game

By Rawi Hage

There’s an adjective that has too long languished in the negative camp of book reviews. I’d like to reclaim it. Calling prose “flat” is usually one of the less hurtful ways of saying that a ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Aiken Drum

By Peter Sanger

Nova Scotia-based poet and critic Peter Sanger is the author or editor of some 15 books. In Aiken Drum, his sixth collection of poetry, he continues his engagement with the subjects of his previous works ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Fathom

By Tim Bowling

Mercy, what a book. Fathom, the seventh volume of poetry from B.C. poet Tim Bowling, is easily one of the most powerful books of Canadian poetry in recent memory, less a collection than a poetic ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Every Highway

By Dave Feschuk

Dave Feschuk was very intrigued by the plight of the “highway cowboy,” those drivers who pilot mammoth 18-wheelers down the highway, so much so that the Toronto Star sports reporter spent time riding shotgun in ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Reference