Reviews

Going to New Orleans

Like a jazzy riff on old standards by William S. Burroughs and Nelson Algren comes Charles Tidler’s debut novel, Going to New Orleans. Tidler, who makes his home in Victoria, is best known as a ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

This Body

By Tessa McWatt

"How does it feel to be an echo?” is the question that both drives and thwarts Victoria Blayne, the protagonist of Tessa McWatt’s third novel. This Body is a story of self-reckoning, an exploration of ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy

By Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan, eds.

Author Nalo Hopkinson and science fiction scholar Uppinder Mehan have cultivated this anthology of new short stories from emerging and established postcolonial writers all over the world. The 19 unique stories here are framed by ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Duet

By David Helwig

Duet seems an oddly refined title for this sourly comic novella by prolific poet and novelist David Helwig. Ending Up would have been perfect for this examination of aging and death, had that title not ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Place of Last Things

By Michael Helm

In the Place of Last Things is Michael Helm’s sophomore effort, arriving seven years after his Giller-nominated novel, The Projectionist. His new novel radiates out from Russ Littlebury and his relationship with his dying father, ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tarcadia

By Jonathan Campbell

We know from the beginning that Tarcadia, Jonathan Campbell’s debut novel, is going to end badly, and that’s a good thing. Otherwise when a table improbably collapses under a Christmas feast a few pages into ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Red Diaper Baby: A Memoir

By James Laxer

This short memoir by York University political science professor and writer James Laxer is successful because it is about much more than a single life. Laxer grew up in Montreal, Ottawa, and finally Toronto, his ... Read More »

September 7, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Damage Done by the Storm

By Jack Hodgins

There is something very Canadian about the stories in this, Jack Hodgins’ third collection. It’s not just that many of them are set in the author’s native B.C. – on the coast or the islands ... Read More »

August 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey

By Robert Hunter

There’s something about Greenpeace that’s slightly reminiscent of an aging 1960s rock star. Sure, it may still go off on the occasional bender, but on the whole it’s a respectable member of mainstream society. One ... Read More »

August 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Love and Sweet Food: A Culinary Memoir

By Austin Clarke

It’s like cooking through a plastic bag, the way we spin our food round and round in silent electric mixers and turn to hand-held presses and precision-cut slicers to avoid scenting and staining our fingertips. ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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