Reviews

Couchwarmer: A Laundromat Adventure

Couchwarmer, the second novel by Toronto writer Greg Kramer, builds on many of the obsessions of its predecessor, The Pursemonger of Fugu: A Bathroom Mystery. Like Fugu, this novel gleefully scratches at the underbelly of ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Buying on Time

By Antanas Sileika

Buying On Time is a moving and entertaining collection of short stories about a Lithuanian-Canadian family set in the Toronto suburb of Weston. Ordered chronologically from 1953 to 1981, the collection has the unified feel ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Homer in Flight

By Rabindranath Maharaj

When prospective Canadians check the rhetoric of travel brochures against the country they encounter on arrival, the art that results can sting. For minority authors, this work is crucial to community and personal identity in ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Two-headed Calf

By Sandra Birdsell

In The Two-Headed Calf, Sandra Birdsell’s first collection of stories in 12 years, the Manitoban writer explores the strangeness lurking in Winnipeg’s tidy streets. Here, parents and children, lovers, and friends live in conflict, sometimes ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Banjo Lessons

By David Carpenter

In Tim Fisher, the anti-hero of David Carpenter’s seventh book, the prairie author has created an engaging character whose struggle toward independence and maturity fills this long and frequently very funny coming-of-age novel. Set in Alberta, ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Home Spa

By Anne Harding,Janice Biehn

Anyone with a passing interest in beauty treatments can tell you that avocados go on your face, not in your hair, but no one can give you these essential tips quite like a thick, glossy ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Baroque at Dawn

By Nicole Brossard,Patricia Claxton, trans.

It is easy to imagine Nicole Brossard, a small woman of great presence, declaiming lyric passages from her latest novel, Baroque at Dawn. The book is studded with long poetic riffs that cry out, even ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Frameshift

By Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer has been making quite a name for himself recently in science fiction circles. In a handful of years the Thornhill, Ontario novelist has gone from writing pleasant but lightweight fantasy stories involving ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

By Eric McCormack

The title of this novel (recycled from a 16th-century book by John Knox), an introductory note explains, is not to be interpreted as meaning a militant female troop. Rather, “regiment” means “magisterial rule.” We might ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Resurrection in the Cartoon

By Robert Priest

Torontonian Robert Priest’s first collection of poems in seven years is a decidedly mixed bag. A sometimes ironic, sometimes angry investigation of contemporary culture, the book tackles a wide variety of subjects. There are several poems ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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