Reviews

The Wildfire Season

In a poignant section near the beginning of Andrew Pyper’s third novel, Miles McEwan attempts to come to terms with life after suffering disfiguring burns he received fighting wildfires in B.C. He returns home to ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gently Down the Stream

By Ray Robertson

The experience of reading Ray Robertson’s fourth novel is analogous to the careless slide through life evoked by the title, recalling the jobless summer days of childhood, when books were read without a thought for ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

He Drown She in the Sea

By Shani Mootoo

Shani Mootoo’s second novel, He Drown She in the Sea, set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Guanagaspar, is a tale of lovers stymied by class divisions and circumstance, star-crossed in a very post-colonial, contemporary ... Read More »

May 9, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit

By Laura Penny

"Your call is important to us.” We’ve all this line before, but if my call were truly important to you, I would be talking to a living being instead of hanging on hold and being ... Read More »

May 2, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Sylvanus Now

By Donna Morrissey

To read Sylvanus Now, the third novel from Donna Morrissey, is to be immersed in the life of a Newfoundland outport community in the middle of the last century. It is a bracing experience, a ... Read More »

April 25, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Perfect Night to Go to China

By David Gilmour

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. In recent years, it’s become standard practice for novelists to adopt pop psychology’s five-stage model of grieving when writing about trauma. But as Toronto author and TV arts presenter David ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bird Factory

By David Layton

In this, his second book, David Layton tells the story of a man with an egomaniacal, eccentric, and adulterous artist for a father. It may sound like a sequel to his autobiography, Motion Sickness, in ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rosa’s District 6

By Rozena Maart

Finding courage, humour, and humanity within oppressive circumstances is a rare but hopeful thing in this bitter world. One such discovery is Rosa’s District 6, a series of short stories situated in 1960s Cape Town, ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad

By Naim Kattan, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Over a lengthy career, Iraq-born Montrealer Naim Kattan has written more than 30 books of fiction, poetry, and criticism, for which he has received a cache of awards, including France’s Légion d’Honneur and the Order ... Read More »

April 18, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

With the Boys: Field Notes on Being a Guy

By Jake MacDonald

In the first pages of his second man-in-nature memoir, Jake MacDonald invokes the manliest muse, Ernest Hemingway, lamenting that all hunting and fishing books end up being compared to the work of Papa. With such ... Read More »

April 11, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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