Reviews

★ Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession

Romantic obsession is one of those wickedly tricky subjects that easily lead to a badly written swamp of pitiful sentiment – but not in the discerning hands of veteran biographer Rosemary Sullivan. Turning her attention ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Open Arms

By Marina Endicott

Bessie Smith, the narrator of Open Arms, the first novel by Saskatchewan writer and playwright Marina Endicott, is a young woman with some troubling role models. Her father, an award-winning poet, left her and her ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Jasmine Man

By Lola Lemire Tostevin

Writers like Lola Lemire Tostevin resist the ordinary and predictable in sentences and plots. While she hasn’t sold a zillion books, Tostevin has enjoyed a fine reputation as a thinking, feeling, inventive crafter of fiction ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Louder than the Sea

By Wayne Bartlett

In his other incarnation, Newfoundland singer-songwriter Wayne Bartlett’s most popular song chronicles the closure of the Newfoundland fishery. In Louder than the Sea, his first novel, he tackles similarly political subjects: the necessity of the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Sputnik Diner

By Rick Maddocks

Rick Maddocks’ impressive talent isn’t necessarily in telling stories – the five interconnected tales of Sputnik Diner are carefully crafted, but are often preoccupied with plodding exposition. Like Alice Munro, whose works share the common ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Dagmar’s Daughter

By Kim Echlin

In many ways, Kim Echlin’s second novel continues the themes of her first: Elephant Winter set the progress of a mother’s death against the incongruous backdrop of elephants in an Ontario winter. In that book ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Kingdom of Monkeys

By Adam Lewis Schroeder

In the film Apocalypse Now – which functions as a backdrop to one of the stories in this collection – the jungle starts to pick off the increasingly delirious Yanks as they journey upriver, turning ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Harm’s Way

By Maureen Hynes

The title poem of Maureen Hynes’s second collection depicts the book as a sort of travel narrative for Amazons: “Some of us wear a piece of the road as an amulet/over our breastbones.” The book’s ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Dove Legend

By Richard Outram

Beginning Dove Legend, the newest collection by award-winning Toronto poet Richard Outram, is a little like entering a foreign language. Outram’s conventional poetic forms and strict rhymes, combined with his use of archaic language, will ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Exact Fare Only: Good, Bad & Ugly Rides on Public Transit

By Grant Buday,ed.

It’s difficult, if not impossible, to imagine a tribute to the stale air of a long, cramped ride on a Greyhound or the congestion of a subway during rush hour. Yet despite – or perhaps ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

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