Authors of short story collections are like major league hitters. Each story is a trip to the plate, a time at bat where one can hit a home run or strike out on three pages. ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
There is a curious paradox to broadcaster and writer Stuart McLean: how does someone whose writing is so resolutely (and deliberately) unfashionable become so popular? Or, to put it another way, why are his stories, ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
In her introduction, Rona Murray states that she and fellow editor Garry McKevitt chose the 12 short stories in this anthology of emerging writers because they are bound together by a “similar sense of alienation.” ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies
Dorothy Speak’s first novel, The Wife Tree, is probably not the book to read if you’re feeling pessimistic about relations between men and women. While the book ends with Morgan Hazzard, its 70-something heroine, ready ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
A striking deadpan humour sets the narrative tone in Toronto writer Mariko Tamaki’s fiction debut, Cover Me. Over the course of lunch with her wise-cracking father in a downtown Chinese restaurant, narrator Traci Yamoto describes ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Michelle Berry’s two short-story collections are informed by a sharply mordant edge, their haunting characters anything but typical van-owning suburbanites. Her skilled first novel continues to dig over that terrain. What We All Want is ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Anne Simpson’s debut novel unfolds like a long letter from an old friend. In Canterbury Beach, the Nova Scotian poet turns her attention to the quiet stories that lie at the heart of families.Verna and ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Kristen den Hartog’s dark, tender first novel reveals her as a sort of literary younger sister to Alice Munro, plumbing the landscape of small town southern Ontario to turn up stories of sexual discontent and ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The fighter pilots of 1914-1918 were the heroes of a war that was unusually lacking in obvious heroes. They fought in single combat above the anonymous muddy slaughter of the Western Front, and a disproportionate ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: History
Alex Rose’s Spirit Dance at Mezidian is a short, sharp, and considered explication of the land settlement treaty drafted between the Nisga’a and the B.C. and Canadian governments. It could, in fact, be nicknamed the ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples
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