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Choose Me

By Evelyn Lau

As with much of Evelyn Lau’s previous writing – fiction, memoir, and poetry – the six stories and one novella in this collection obsessively track ill-fated, sexualized relationships between young women and much older men. ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Young Men

By Russell Smith

These stories, in the main, are a kind of anthropological foray that might have been subtitled “Failing to Come of Age in Toronto.” “Slaves of Queen Street” or “Dimmish Lights, Middling City” would also have ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Song of Ascent

By Gabriella Goliger

After the literature of the Holocaust comes the literature of the Holocaust’s children. Spared the immediate horrors of the Second World War, they are left with the more subtle task of witnessing the witnesses – ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Cargo of Orchids

By Susan Musgrave

Susan Musgrave’s first novel in over 10 years has everything her readers might expect from her: rich, lyrical language, bizarre imagery, and an intimate familiarity with the state-sanctioned indignities inflicted on prison inmates. Musgrave’s anonymous ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels