Reviews

Monkey Beach

Haisla-Heiltsuk writer Eden Robinson’s first book was a collection of four stories, Traplines. In 1996, it opened to New York raves and Canadian reserve (pun intended): pretty good for a beginner. Her subsequent New Face ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Thirteen Shades of Black and White

By Michael Bryson

Michael Bryson populates his first story collection with a familiar platoon of the urban alienated. There are old and young, boys and girls, all sleepwalking through relationships that don’t quite qualify as such, and sex ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Atonement

By Gaétan Soucy,Sheila Fischman, trans.

Gaétan Soucy’s novel Atonement is as carefully put together and as disturbing as a painting by Belgian artist René Magritte. Although the surrealist painter meticulously represents a familiar world, Magritte’s universe, like Soucy’s, seems ordered ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Going Down Swinging

By Billie Livingston

Billie Livingston’s first novel sympathetically witnesses the precarious existence of a single mother and her seven-year-old daughter Grace in the early 1970s. Briefly a teacher, Eilleen Hoffmann has fallen into the service of alcohol, pills, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Miss Wyoming

By Douglas Coupland

I’m one of those people who thought Douglas Coupland’s Generation X (1991) was interesting writing and not just sociologically hip Zeitgeist charting. Nearly a decade, and a half-dozen Coupland books later, Gen X (I reread ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ God’s Spies: Stories in Defiance of Oppression

By Alberto Manguel, ed.

This surpassingly humanitarian collection of fiction features stories of political resistance against some of the most malignant governmental regimes of the century. The 22 contributors speak from Asia, Africa, the U.K., South America, and from ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Kilt

By Jonathan Wilson

There are figurative and literal deserts in this play: the real desert is Tobruk, a port on the Mediterranean Coast, while the emotional deserts exist in the mind of Tom Robertson, a young exotic dancer ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Coronation Voyage

By Michel Marc Bouchard,Linda Gaboriau, trans.

It has taken almost five years for Michel Marc Bouchard’s 1995 play, Le Voyage du couronnement, to reach English language audiences as The Coronation Voyage. But the wait has been worthwhile. This play is Bouchard’s ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Invisible to Predators

By R.M. Vaughan

A candid celebration of homosexual love is the predominant theme of Toronto-based poet R.M. Vaughan’s latest collection.Vaughan delves into all aspects of romantic and physical love, from awkward courtship rituals to carnal pleasures. There is ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

News & Smoke

By Sharon Thesen

Asking a poet to explain his or her work may result in inscrutable mumbling, a beery confession, or stony silence. And then there’s Sharon Thesen, whose introduction to News & Smoke is one of the ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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