Reviews

What’s a Black Critic to Do? Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers

A key figure in the growing public discourse on race and voice in Canadian letters is Toronto reviewer, literary critic, and journalist Donna Bailey Nurse. Her first book, What’s a Black Critic To Do?, is ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Grand Centaur Station: Unruly Living with the New Nomads of Central Asia

By Larry Frolick

If you want to see the sometimes brutal collision of ancient empires and unregulated, ham-fisted capitalism, then Central Asia is the place. The many anti-destinations explored by Toronto author Larry Frolick in Grand Centaur Station ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century

By Dan Yashinsky

More than any other activity, it is storytelling that makes us human. Termites build. Primates use tools. Most animals have some form of language, of communication. So far as we know, however, it is only ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

New Power

By Christine Lowther

In October 1975, Pat Lowther’s body was found in a creek near Squamish, B.C. ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Nervous System: Or Losing My Mind in Literature

By Jan Lars Jensen

Selling a first novel to a major publisher inevitably brings a writer much anxiety as well as joy. Few authors end up going crazy because of it. But that’s exactly what happened to British Columbia’s ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Thieves

By Janice Kulyk Keefer

Literary history has tended to relegate New Zealand’s Katherine Mansfield to the fringes of modernism, despite the fact that as an expatriate living in London she lived very much within its maelstrom, moving easily among ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Faking

By James King

Many novels are written around real lives, ranging from books that are near-biographies of major figures to concoctions based upon a bare historical mention, such as Jacqueline Park’s 1997 The Secret Book of Grazia dei ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World

By Natalee Caple

There’s a distinctly Eastern European feel to Toronto writer Natalee Caple’s debut novel, The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World. That the characters in this intimate story of love’s compromises and life’s disappointments ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Border Guards

By Mark Sinnett

The Border Guards belongs to an all-Canadian genre invented and polished by mystery writer Giles Blunt: the “ice noir.” Set among the Thousand Islands on the St. Lawrence, the book is about two very different ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

My Paris

By Gail Scott

My Paris is not for those who dislike grammatical experimentation. But for those who do enjoy playing with language, this memoir (billed as a novel) of six months in Paris in 1993 is a pleasure.The ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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