What Passes for Love

Stan Rogal’s voice in his new story collection, What Passes for Love, is immediately familiar and appealing. His dense sketches (no paragraph breaks, little punctuation) are interior monologues that draw us quickly into his narrators’ ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Nine-Tenths Unseen: A Psychological Mystery

By Kenneth J. Harvey

I hope it’s not giving away too much to say that much of the “psychological mystery” of Kenneth J. Harvey’s new novel is which partner in this dark tale of a couple in an isolated ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Spice House

By Marnie Woodrow

Marnie Woodrow’s first short story collection opens with the counsel, “Eat so that you may love: and love so that you may eat.” Linked stories are standard these days, but an author who links by ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Muck

By N.J. Dodic

N.J. Dodic, in his second novel, Muck, adds an intriguing wrinkle to the convention of basing a novel around the interplay between a main text and its “editor’s” footnotes, which occurs most famously in Pale ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flying to Yellow

By Linda Holeman

Yellow is, as Alexander Theroux has written, a colour “with a thousand meanings.” Connoting both glory and disturbing estrangement, it contains, Theroux contends, an opposing duality.This duality is central to Flying to Yellow, a debut ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Cure for Death by Lightning

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Halfway through Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s debut novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, I flipped to the publication data expecting to confirm my suspicions that the author was born sometime around the Great Depression. She wasn’t. ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Photographer’s Sweethearts

By Diana Hartog

There is much that is praiseworthy in The Photographer’s Sweethearts, the first novel written by the poet Diana Hartog. As one might expect, given the reputation Hartog’s earned with her three volumes of poetry, her ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fall on Your Knees

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

In a 1990 interview, Ann-Marie MacDonald said she is haunted by “the mythic place called Cape Breton,” and that her imagination projects “an aura of magic, of mystery” onto its landscape and residents. Predictably, her ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Self: A Novel

By Yann Martel

Yann Martel is probably best known for “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios,” which first appeared in the Malahat Review in 1990 and subsequently in the third Journey Prize Anthology and after that as the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The End of the World

By John Leslie

Doomsday has a long history, almost as long as that of the human race whose extinction it continually foretells. In the early days of the species, when war, disease, and starvation crowded the horizon, the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

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