Omnivores

In Lydia Millet’s debut novel, everything’s lunch, potentially. That’s to say that whoever you are in this novel – whether a moth or a web-worm or one or another of the human characters – you’re ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hope in the Desperate Hour

By David Adams Richards

New Brunswick’s David Adams Richards’ new novel, Hope in the Desperate Hour, may be heavy on the “desperate” and light on the “hope,” but he writes about sadness so well and with such just sympathy ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Shark in the House

By Dorris Heffron

A Shark in the House starts promisingly enough: on page two our narrator, a Toronto dentist by the name of Holly Kowalski, breaks a professional confidence or two to report that her clients Timothy Findley ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In Another Place, Not Here

By Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand’s 1990 volume of poetry, No Language Is Neutral, sold over 6,000 copies, a remarkable number, even with a Governor General’s Award nomination. Her first novel will please those intrigued with Brand’s politically mediated, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Teaching Pigs to Sing

By Cordelia Strube

“Nothing, like something, happens anywhere,” the poet Philip Larkin said. At its best, Cordelia Strube’s third novel, Teaching Pigs to Sing, manages to make something out of nothing. Regrettably, this story of Rita Johnson, a ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Arousing the Goddess

By Tim Ward

Susan Sontag concludes her essay, “Against Interpretation,” with an admonition to critics: “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.” I thought of Sontag’s essay while reading Tim Ward’s wonderful new novel, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Gryphon

By Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock’s Griffin and Sabine series takes a new twist in The Gryphon with the introduction of two new correspondents, Matthew and Isabella. The book features letters and cards between Sabine and Matthew, Griffin and ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sex of the Stars

By Monique Proulx, Matt Cohen, trans.

One of the most interesting authors to emerge from Quebec in recent years, Monique Proulx writes for radio, television, and films in addition to her award-winning fiction. She won two literary prizes for her 1983 ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Hornbooks of Rita K.

By Robert Kroetsch

Margaret Atwood once said the four-letter epithet most dreadful to a writer’s ears is the word “icon.” Consider Robert Kroetsch, equipped with his first new book of poems in 10 years. How can his new ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Slant

By Andy Quan

The title of this debut poetry collection is an evocative pun on author Andy Quan’s varied perspectives – that of an Asian-Canadian whose eyes are “slanted”; of a gay man whose sensual interest is “bent” ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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