Reviews

The Perpetual Ending

As any creative writing teacher knows, serious stories about broken homes are very difficult to carry off, demanding a near-religious abstinence from anything smacking of movie-of-the-week melodramatics. Kristen den Hartog’s unsatisfying follow-up to the well-received ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Hard Witching and Other Stories

By Jacqueline Baker

Jacqueline Baker’s stories of the Sand Hills region of Saskatchewan seem at first to belong to the Dust Bowl era of drought and dwindling communities on land that gives back less than it takes. There’s ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

When X Equals Marylou

By Tamas Dobozy

The stories in When X Equals Marylou, the second collection from Tamas Dobozy, are the literary equivalent of broken glass in a spoonful of honey. They go down smoothly, with a bit of prickling, then ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Please

By Peter Darbyshire

Please, Peter Darbyshire’s debut novel, belongs to a genre of urban slacker/existentialist fiction recently popularized by Jesus’ Son, the critically acclaimed collection of linked stories by American Denis Johnson. The appeal of Johnson’s protagonist lay ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An Appropriate Place

By Lise Bissonnette,Sheila Fischman, trans.

Lise Bissonnette’s An Appropriate Place is the sad tale of a Baby Boomer who becomes disenchanted with everything she’s achieved through feminism and Quebec nationalism. The novel opens with Gabrielle Perron, a bus driver’s daughter ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mercy

By Alissa York

In her debut novel, Alissa York drops her readers into small-town Mercy, Manitoba, in the summer of 1948. Like her award-winning short fiction, Mercy is told in a series of spare vignettes that are rattled ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Day in the Life of the Maple Leafs

By Andrew Podnieks, ed.

Just in time for the Christmas rush comes A Day in the Life of the Maple Leafs, a beautifully bound, elegant picture book chronicling one game day on Planet Maple Leaf. In this case, it’s ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Where Fire Speaks: A Visit with the Himba

By Sandra Shields, David Campion, photog.

In 1995, the Himba people of northwest Namibia were under threat from a proposed hydroelectric dam project. With the help of a grant from the International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development, photographer David ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War

By Jacques R. Pauwels

Few truisms are as inviolable as the notion that the Second World War was a battle of good versus evil. Yet a recent stream of works documenting corporate collusion between Nazi Germany and General Motors, ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver

By Karen Love, ed.

Is it possible to capture the essence of a city by photographing its inhabitants? That is the underlying goal of Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver ($29.95 paper 1-55152-127-X, 160 pp., 8 x 10, Arsenal Pulp ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

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