Reviews

A Short Journey by Car

Uncommonly ambitious, Liam Durcan’s debut story collection is also unusually mixed in quality. Beginning authors tend to underimagine their fictional worlds and remain cautious in style, arriving at neither bold achievement nor outright failure. But ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Worthwhile Flux

By Corey Frost

Corey Frost, a veteran of Montreal’s spoken word scene, spent a decade writing, performing, and collecting the bits and pieces that make up The Worthwhile Flux, his second book. The book encompasses prose, photos, and ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Nine Planets

By Edward Riche

Two big new novels from young, male Newfoundland authors appeared in bookstores this season, and they could hardly have less in common. Michael Winter’s The Big Why, despite its dabblings in high art and unorthodox ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Larry’s Party

By Carol Shields

If Laurence J. Weller’s life is a maze (and whose isn’t?), it is most definitely not the one of Greek legend, a complicated, malevolent labyrinth where a Minotaur strides angrily, wiping out brave soldiers. It ... Read More »

November 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Venous Hum

By Suzette Mayr

Venous Hum offers none of the soothing comfort evoked by the connotation of a rhythmically beating heart. Instead, Alberta author Suzette Mayr’s latest novel weaves an outrageously comical yet surreal tale of broken hearts, burning ... Read More »

November 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Greetings from the Vodka Sea

By Chris Gudgeon

Victoria non-fiction author Chris Gudgeon’s first book of short fiction contains stories so unique that it’s near impossible to draw them under one clean phrase. One thing is clear: these are not normal people Gudgeon ... Read More »

November 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Short History of Progress

By Ronald Wright

The Massey Lectures series has weighed in, once again, with a provocative and timely exploration of important ideas. Ronald Wright, one of this country’s intellectual treasures, brings his background in archaeology, history, and comparative culture ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ Runaway

By Alice Munro

Alice Munro’s 11th collection is exactly what readers expect from this writer, quintessential Munro at top form. At the same time, every story in it is surprising, turning on unexpected, even inexplicable human actions.With each ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Adultery

By Richard B. Wright

This novel could be charged with false advertising. The one-word title screams sex, and the cover art of a dark-haired beauty in a car, her head thrown back in passionate abandonment, redefines steamy. “That’s a ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

With English Subtitles

By Carmine Starnino

The poems in Carmine Starnino’s third collection are bold and original, breathing fresh perspective into familiar subjects. Starnino crafts poems that not only push the form’s envelope but stuffs that envelope with imaginative ideas.Starnino’s language ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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