Reviews

The Seven A.M. Practice: Stories of Family Life

Most newspaper columnists know – and if they don’t, they ought to think again – that they deal in perishable goods, that words dished up for daily consumption aren’t for the ages. Newspaper columns are ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897–1997

By Carol Margaret Davison with Paul Simpson-Housley,eds.

This book of essays on Dracula, intended for inclusion on university reading lists, will also appeal to those with a serious interest in the rise of this popular icon. Carol Margaret Davison, a lecturer in ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Headed for the Blues: A Memoir with Ten Stories

By Josef Skvorecky, Kaca Polackova- Henley with Caleb Crain, Peter Kussi, Paul Wilson, trans.

Josef Skvorecky’s literary history is tangled with the history of his native land – what used to be Czechoslovakia – in a way for which there is no obvious Canadian-born counterpart. Rudy Wiebe, Margaret Atwood, ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish

By Norman Ravvin

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Hellmouths of Bewdley

By Tony Burgess

An insane doped-up doctor, a 30-year-old gay virgin, a redneck transvestite, and 20 guys named Jesus Christ reside in Toronto writer Tony Burgess’s first collection of short stories. Set in Bewdley, Ontario, The Hellmouths of Bewdley ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Comfort Zones

By Pamela Donoghue

The ties that bind the stories of Comfort Zone often do so in unexpected ways: the pharmacist uncle who goes fishing with Wanda Lee’s ex-boyfriend turns out to be married to a woman in another ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Home Movies

By Ray Robertson

As its title suggests, Toronto writer Ray Robertson’s first novel, Home Movies, could be read as an attempt to forge a new independent Canadian film sub-genre: urban cowboy loser noir. It fails even as it ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Opium Dreams

By Margaret Gibson

The narrator of Margaret Gibson’s first novel, Opium Dreams, is “grown-poet and some-time short-story writer Maggie Glass,” a Canada Council grantee who has published “one award-winning short-story book and one award-winning poetry book.” Maggie confesses, ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Keel Kissing Bottom

By Elizabeth de Freitas

This powerfully strange first novel by Toronto-based Elizabeth de Freitas traces the aqueous odyssey of a Nova Scotian teenager who abandons her maritime birthplace to defy fate in relatively landlocked Toronto. Full of mythic incident ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Silence Descends: The End of the Information Age, 2000–2500

By George Case

Vancouver writer George Case’s first novel isn’t really a novel at all but a brief speculative history which, from the cultural utopia of the year 2500, looks back over time to the hysterical info-blather of ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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