Reviews

The Secret of the Northern Lights

There is a tendency for books – fiction and otherwise – to describe native people as either being trampled emotionally by years of oppression, or abundantly rich in traditional culture. Both stereotypes exist, but they ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Sword of Goliath

By Martin S. Cohen

Martin S. Cohen’s third novel is a rambling, discursive mystery that sends its kindly protagonist, Michael Prager, on a search to uncover an ancient secret. Shaped by the minutiae of Jewish lore and erudite biblical ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bitter Taste of Time

By Béa Gonzalez

It’s a familiar literary scenario: in a lush, troubled country lives a family of women. Their men have all died tragically or abandoned them scandalously. The iron-willed matriarch maintains order through numerous disasters, but her ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Boy of Good Breeding

By Miriam Toews

Tell me, is there a Canadian, male or female, who doesn’t know what a Zamboni is? Miriam Toews, in her second novel A Boy of Good Breeding, would have us believe that in spring 1996 ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Widow for One Year

By John Irving

“My novels aren’t ideas...I begin with the characters, which leads me to the problems that the characters are prone to have, which yields a story – every time.” The speaker here is Ruth Cole, one ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Wise and Foolish Virgins

By Don Hannah

Don Hannah’s first novel The Wise and Foolish Virgins is one of this year’s selections in Knopf Canada’s “New Face of Fiction” series. Knopf’s annual spring campaign to uncover the next CanLit rising star has ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Man of Bone

By Alan Cumyn

All prepared for a first diplomatic posting in Beijing, Bill Burridge is sent instead to Santa Irene, a troubled island republic near Vietnam. The republic is fictional, but the scenario of corruption, human rights abuses, ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lucy Lawless and Reneé O’Connor: Warrior Stars of Xena

By Nikki Stafford

Ah, Xena: Warrior Princess. You’ve gotta love this small-screen giantess and the TV show she stars in. The Styrofoam props that perpetually give themselves away, the ravishing New Zealand landscape where it is filmed, the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Badass on a Softail

By T.F. Rigelhof

It’s not what you do, but why you do it. That nugget of pop psychology is at the heart of Quebec novelist T.F. Rigelhof’s latest book, Badass on a Softail. Protagonist David Hoffer finds himself at ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Newsroom

By Ken Finkleman

The Newsroom, for those who spent the last TV season reading books or in solitary confinement, was a CBC series almost revolutionary in execution. Besides being both cynical and urbane, historically a no-no at the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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