Reviews

The Big Why

For the past several years it’s seemed as if everyone and their aunt is writing historical novels. Even so, it’s hard to avoid surprise when a writer such as Newfoundland’s Michael Winter – known for ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Tiger Claw

By Shauna Singh Baldwin

The Tiger Claw is a Second World War spy novel with a difference. The spy in question was a real woman, a radio operator who volunteered for Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) and was dropped ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Hunger’s Brides

By Paul Anderson

By the midway point of Hunger’s Brides’ almost 1,400 pages, the suspense is starting to build, not merely at a narrative level – what are the dark secrets of poet Sor Juana’s childhood? how will ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Snowbird Poems

By Robert Kroetsch

Robert Kroetsch has deservedly earned a reputation as one of the leading writers of what, for lack of a better term, has been called Canadian postmodernism. Kroetsch’s self-reflexive narration is well in evidence in his ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Night Street Repairs

By A.F. Moritz

In his 16th poetry collection, A.F. Moritz shows how master wordsmiths ply their trade. The poems in Night Street Repairs stand firm as pillars of accessible poetry rooted in the qualified skill of a veteran ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Names of the Dead: An Elegy for the Victims of September 11

By Diane Schoemperlen

Surely no one would dispute that real-life tragedy can spark transcendent art. But that blithe generalization gets put to the test in Diane Schoemperlen’s new book-length essay, Names of the Dead: An Elegy for the ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Footprints: Canadian Sports Stories: Summer

By Dave Toms

Footprints, by filmmaker and first-time writer Dave Toms of Peterborough, Ontario, focuses on summer sports and award-winners, presenting short four-page profiles of 50 Canadian athletes, one-third of them female.Arranged chronologically, the achievements of athletes span ... Read More »

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

One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema

By George Melnyk

To casual observers, Canadian film must seem like an almost newborn art, with the country’s internationally acclaimed filmmakers – Egoyan, Cronenberg, Lepage, Arcand – all having emerged since the 1960s.Of course, this isn’t the case. ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: History

Story-Wallah!: A Celebration of South Asian Fiction

By Shyam Selvadurai, ed.

It’s a shame the word “diaspora” isn’t more commonly used. Because as Sri-Lankan born Toronto novelist Shyam Selvadurai points out in his excellent introduction, diaspora – with its adjective “diasporic,” both from the Greek for ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Pearls in Vinegar: The Pillow Book of Heather Mallick

By Heather Mallick

Some journalists’ writing, charming in brevity, suffers when translated to a full-length book. So readers of Heather Mallick’s Globe and Mail columns may approach Pearls in Vinegar with some trepidation. Fortunately, Mallick has resisted the ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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