Much like David Rocco’s recent excellent cookbook, Avventura, for which Rocco toured Italy gathering recipes from local chefs, the strength of The La Fenice Cookbook, by Luigi Orgera, is its authenticity. Orgera, who died last ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink
John Ibbitson, a columnist with the Globe and Mail, is a brave writer. While he could have limited the scope of Loyal No More to the current impasse between Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill, Ibbitson ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The stories and novella in Aislinn Hunter’s What’s Left Us concern themselves with young women muddling their way through love affairs and family entanglements both mundane and dramatic. Hunter’s storytelling voice is savvy and contemporary, ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
With All the Seas of the World, award-winning short-story writer Gayla Reid makes a confident and compelling, affecting and strong-minded entry into long fiction. And she does it like a champion hurdler, breezing over a ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
You really want to like Philippa, the heroine of Sarah Dearing’s new novel,Courage My Love. Feeling like “such a wife,” she slips away from her pastel condo and her yuppie weasel husband, and immerses herself ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Kate Sterns’ second novel, Down There by the Train, takes its cue from Alice in Wonderland, but in Sterns’ world Alice is dead and it is her older brother, Levon, who falls down the rabbit ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The African Safari Papers, documentary filmmaker Robert Sedlack’s first novel, is the fictional record of 19-year-old Richard Clark’s journey through Kenya with his alcoholic father and psychologically precarious mother. Young Richard intends to write a ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Despite the numerous death-of-fiction pronouncements made over the last half-century, some writers continue to search for ways to reanimate the form. Toronto’s Sheila Heti is one such writer. In her first collection of fiction she ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Linda Rogers’ latest collection of poems is a delicate masterwork of brutality, a rich evocation of the tragedy and magic of human existence. Little prepares the reader for the intensity and deep pleasure The Saning ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
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