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Generation J

By Lisa Schiffman

There’s an old Jewish saying, at once self-disparaging and yet slightly smug: “Ten Jews, 50 opinions.” Jews are obstreperous and argumentative, it seems to imply, but also individualistic and highly independent. While Jewish communities often ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Eunoia

By Christian Bök

Trust the French to produce an avant-garde novelist, Georges Perec, who could write a 300-page novel, La Disparition, without a single use of the letter ‘e.’ Trust Christian Bök – a Toronto poet, linguist, and ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

By A.F. Moritz

Reading Albert Moritz, one is reminded that this conscientious social objector could easily pass for a modern day Tom Jones. Throughout his provocative, deeply moving, and challenging collection, the Toronto-based artist frames his moral outrage ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Summer Burns

By Mary Jo Pollak

Hot summer nights. Parties. Small town Ontario. Drugs and alcohol. Waitressing. Hitchhiking. Best friends. Nicknames. This is Mary Jo Pollak’s first novel, Summer Burns. Living in the 1970s – where freedom mixes with drug dependency, ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Short Haul Engine

By Karen Solie

Almost everything you need to know about Karen Solie’s first collection of poetry is contained in her title, Short Haul Engine. This slim volume of poems burns with the intensity of an engine, firing with ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry