Reviews

Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada

Predicting readers’ reaction to Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw is a simple task. If you know a few basic facts about Canada, and if you like Will Ferguson’s writing – and, judging by the success ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Revenge: A Noir Anthology About Getting Even

By Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers, eds.

It’s tempting to think of Insomniac Press’s series of noir fiction anthologies (of which Revenge is the third, after Iced and Hard Boiled Love) as a kind of corrective to the swaths of mushy, middlebrow ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Write Across Canada: Mapping the Country in 19 Chapters

By Peter Schneider, ed.

Ever since literature started imagining the sex lives of ordinary people, readers have been flocking to stories that portray couples working out the nuts and bolts of day-to-day romance. Take the confused Bruce, half of ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

4 X 4

By Wayne Tefs

Wayne Tefs’ eighth novel starts out in a bar at the Winnipeg airport on the afternoon of Good Friday. Clinton Dokic is waiting for a flight home to Thompson, Manitoba, where his wife is about ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Industrial Magic

By Kelley Armstrong

Casting spells is quaint, but for material boys and girls, conjuring up private jets, SUVs, and luxury hotels is even more enchanting. Why not use magic to make something other than mere coins appear out ... Read More »

December 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off

By John Lavery

If John Lavery’s stories weren’t so thrillingly careening as to resist description by a single word, “frenetic” might be a good choice. But it’s not. You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off is quick in pacing ... Read More »

December 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What We All Long For

By Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand opens her latest novel with a wide shot of Toronto. A city at once mythic and ordinary, virtual yet earthily corporeal, it hovers above the 43rd parallel. Flight paths and Internet signals cross ... Read More »

December 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Spirituality of Wine

By Tom Harpur

Admirers of Toronto Star religion editor and columnist Tom Harpur, particularly those drawn by the massively popular The Pagan Christ, are apt to be somewhat disappointed by his new book. Oenophiles with a spiritual bent ... Read More »

December 14, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Jacob’s Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness

By Trevor Herriot

At the risk of mixing Biblical metaphors, Jacob’s Wound, the new book from prize-winning Saskatchewan writer Trevor Herriot (author of River in a Dry Land), is something of a coat of many colours. Composed of ... Read More »

December 14, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The 60s: Montreal Thinks Big

By André Lortie, ed.

Every generation comes to love its grandparents’ taste, and the architecture and planning of the mid-20th century is far enough behind us to warrant a new look. Yet while modernism is back in vogue for ... Read More »

December 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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