How Happy to Be is set in Toronto and revolves around Maxine, a thirtysomething entertainment journalist labouring at the fictional neo-con newspaper The Daily. She doesn’t find her job, or her life, particularly satisfying, and ... Read More »
April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
To Gary Snyder, “we are all indigenous to this planet, this garden we are being called on … to reinhabit in good spirit.” For Edward O. Wilson, “nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, ... Read More »
April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
The dodo bird is symbolic of humanity’s often indiscriminate domination over nature. Then along come disasters like the tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina to remind us that domination can go both ways. It is ... Read More »
April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
So who is Dr. Delicious? By day, Robert Lecker is a (relatively) mild-mannered academic, a professor of Canadian writing and criticism at McGill. He was also one of the founders of ECW Press, who championed ... Read More »
April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Alchemy, astronomy, cuckoldry, and would-be saints – Mark Frutkin’s newest novel, his 10th, is as full of action and ribaldry as an Italian commedia cellaret or a comedy by Shakespeare. Given that, Fabrizio’s Return should ... Read More »
April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Appearing nightly: Las Vegas’s newest star and the country’s most ring-a-ding-ding impressionist, Jimmy Wynn! For his first novel, Jason Anderson has created a sort of parallel-universe Kennedy era (known here as the “Cannon era,” after ... Read More »
April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Violent passions destroy, while friendship is peaceful and sustaining – or so we tend to believe. But as overwhelmingly as any physical affair, the friendship of Jonathan Swift dominated the life of Esther Johnson, the ... Read More »
April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Author Grant McCrea has set himself a difficult task in creating a witty, hard-drinking, Chandleresque character, seemingly interested in pursuing women, who is also a married father. Rick Redman’s wife is slowly killing herself with ... Read More »
April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
It’s difficult to reckon whether it’s odd or appropriate that Canada, with its reputation for staidness and dry conventionalism, has produced so impressive a roster of front-rank writers of fantasy and science fiction. To an ... Read More »
April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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