Reviews

Secrets of Learning a Foreign Language

Most foreigners living in Japan eventually hear the same warning: Be careful not to become too good at Japanese.Gaijin who speak like locals are viewed with mistrust – at least according to conventional wisdom – ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Learn in Your Car French

By Henry N. Raymond

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Pimsleur Language Program (French)

By Paul Pimsleur

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wildfire: British Columbia Burns

By Charles Anderson and Lori Culbert

While it is often difficult to fathom the demand for a souvenir book of a tragedy like last summer’s fires in British Columbia’s Interior, Wildfire: British Columbia Burns certainly brings those events into sharp focus. ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Complicated Kindness

By Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews’ second novel starts with a funny-sad zinger: “Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing,” and right away we’re hooked on our narrator’s mournful smarts. Laconic, restless, sixteen-year-old Naomi “Nomi” Nickel doesn’t ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown

By Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

At some point, most writers encounter The Travelling Writer. “I’m also a writer of sorts,” this person will usually say, “but I only write when I’m travelling to other countries because I find so much ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hello Serotonin

By Jon Paul Fiorentino

Widely prescribed drugs whose names blend the promise of comfort with cold, technological efficiency – Zoloft, Paxil, Xanax – are even now resculpting the contemporary mindscape. All of this offers promising terrain for Hello Serotonin, ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

After Surfing Ocean Beach

By Mary Soderstrom

Mary Soderstrom’s third novel, though relatively uncomplicated in both style and structure, is curiously enigmatic. The mystery begins with the title: although the surf at Ocean Beach provides the setting for a number of flashback ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Contrary Angel

By Mike Barnes

The stories that comprise Mike Barnes’ lopsided second collection of short fiction are brought together under no overarching concern or theme, except perhaps one as tenuous as the struggle of characters against themselves.Barnes, who has ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

After Goodlake’s

By Terence Young

Fergus Goodlake is a passive, middle-aged man with prostate trouble who up until now has managed to amble through life taking the path of least resistance. The latest of three generations of Goodlakes to own ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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