Reviews

★ The Unyielding Clamour of the Night

The set-up of Neil Bissoondath’s latest novel might sound a tad familiar. Take a stranger and drop him down in a strange place. See what happens. See how he changes. But take heart! Even the ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Time in Between

By David Bergen

Anyone who has ever served on a hiring committee will know the type: the candidate who is perfect on paper – brilliant resumé, glowing references, Booker-calibre cover letter – but who, in person, turns out ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World

By John Ralston Saul

After decades of incessant talk from pundits about the inevitability of multinational capitalism, many have come to consider globalized market forces to be as unavoidable as, say, gravity. Corporate and public institutions have linked their ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

400 Kilometres

By Drew Hayden Taylor

With 400 Kilometres, the final installment of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Someday trilogy, the story of Janice Wirth comes full circle. The trilogy began with Janice, then a baby named Grace Wabung, being plucked from her ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Over the Roofs of the World

By Olive Senior

Over The Roofs of the World is perhaps the perfect title for the third book of poetry from writer and journalist Olive Senior, who divides her time between Toronto and her native Jamaica. Evoking as ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel

By Jennifer LoveGrove

Toronto poet Jennifer LoveGrove’s second collection is an example of what seems to be a growing subgenre of Canadian poetry: the contemporary dystopia. The first and last poems of this book feature hurricanes, and an ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Miraculous Hours

By Matt Rader

B.C. writer Matt Rader’s debut poetry collection is steeped in violence and death. In the space of the first six poems, a bird hits a window, a truck hits a lamppost, a woman hits a ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Fury’s Hour: A (Sort-of) Punk Manifesto

By Warren Kinsella

The upside of music is its unique power to frame essential moments of a life. The downside, of course, is that these moments – unlike the capsulated eternities of music itself – cannot survive well ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Raise You Five: Essays and Encounters 1964-2004: Volume One

By Barry Callaghan; $, pp.,

One can only assume that if Barry Callaghan had had any choice in the matter, the occupation of writer wouldn’t have been high on his career wish list. Before Atwood, before Munro, before Ondaatje, there ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Probing Minds, Salamander Girls and a Dog Named Sally

By Harrison Wright; George Walker, illus.

Having grown up on a 450-acre apple farm outside Pereaux, Nova Scotia, Harrison Wright is a young man still close, in time and place, to his subject. Wright is 26 years old and works at ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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