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Muck

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

★ Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools

By J.R. Miller

J.R. Miller is a highly regarded Saskatchewan historian, but he also has the makings of an outstanding coroner. In Shingwauk’s Vision, he has autopsied the barely cooled corpse of the native residential school system. With ... Read More »

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

Boom, Bust and Echo

By David Foot and Daniel Stoffman

Does everything come down to demographics? Is the study of human populations the key to solving all our nation’s problems?According to demographer David Foot and journalist Daniel Stoffman, the answer is, more or less, yes. ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton

By Christopher Ondaatje

Sir Richard Burton was easily one of the most intriguing figures of the 19th century – explorer, linguist, orientalist, anthropologist, and, as the translator of the Kama Sutra and a sexual adventurer of some note, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Quill and Quire

Muck

Flying to Yellow

★ The Cure for Death by Lightning

★ The Photographer’s Sweethearts

Fall on Your Knees

Self: A Novel

The End of the World

★ Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools

Boom, Bust and Echo

Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton

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