Reviews

Going Top Shelf: An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry

It’s bad enough that hockey monopolizes both television and the national consciousness for the bulk of each year — now it’s invading the poetry shelves as well? What is the world coming to? I would ... Read More »

May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

The Immaculate Conception

By Gaétan Soucy; Lazer Lederhendler, trans.

Anyone interested in French Canadian literature will want to read Gaétan Soucy’s The Immaculate Conception. Not only does it deal with many of the themes that preoccupied Quebec writers during the second half of the ... Read More »

May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Watermelon Social

By Elaine McCluskey

Despite the insistence of too many TV shows, stories of the suburbs don’t have to include big and dark revelations to provoke interest. Take The Watermelon Social, the first collection from Elaine McCluskey. The people ... Read More »

May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Deadly Little List

By Kay Stewart and Chris Bullock

A Deadly Little List is the first novel by Kay Stewart and Chris Bullock. Appropriately, the two authors have given readers two protagonists. Arthur Fairweather works as a freelance drama critic for Victoria’s daily newspaper. ... Read More »

May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Restoration of Emily

By Kim Moritsugu

Kim Moritsugu’s The Restoration of Emily is a very funny, sometimes suspenseful novel for grown-ups. Women of a certain age with adolescent sons will find it particularly appealing. So will those who have had the ... Read More »

May 15, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Nut at the Opera

By Maurice Vellekoop

Graphic artist Maurice Vellekoop, a contributor to just about every major North American magazine in the last two decades, describes his latest book-length work as a tribute to his late mentor and friend, Paul Baker, ... Read More »

May 8, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Piano, Piano, Pieno: Slow Food from a Tuscan Farm

By Susan McKenna Grant

The unusual title of Susan McKenna Grant’s new cookbook, Piano, Piano, Pieno, translates from the Italian as “Slowly, Slowly, Full.” It is a reference to Slow Food, a movement begun in Italy in 1986 aimed ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Mean Boy

By Lynn Coady

It’s not often that one hears the term “great minor novel” bandied about in a Canadian literary context, possibly because the scene in this country is still relatively young and close-knit. There isn’t the room ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stalking the Holy: The Pursuit of Saint Making

By Michael W. Higgins

Theologian Michael Higgins’ treatise on the making of saints is a self-described personal inquiry into the process, players, and politics inherent in the canonization of Christianity’s heroes. These “action figures of Christendom” have long fascinated ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing

By Donna Bailey Nurse

“Literature has been the means through which I have learned to understand who I am and who I might be,” writes Donna Bailey Nurse in the introduction to this, the first major anthology of black ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

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