Reviews

Knucklehead

Knucklehead, W. Mark Giles’ first collection of short fiction, is an eclectic mix of stories and experimental pieces. The title and cover art are misleading, implying yet another collection of gritty urban tales of boozers ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Old Scores: A Barry Gilbert Mystery

By Scott Mackay

Old Scores is the third episode of the contemporary Toronto-based police procedural series featuring Detective Barry Gilbert. When the body of sleazy drug-addicted music agent and fixer Glen Boyd is found by a collection agent ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Shrimpy and Paul and Friends

By Marc Bell

For many years prolific Canadian underground cartoonist Marc Bell’s playful, circuitous “Shrimpy and Paul” comics have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and zines – venues that never did justice to the labyrinthine structure and lush density ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Succession

By Art Norris

Succession is another tale of the strains and glories of homecoming, told here through a sequence of linked stories connected to Al, a journeyman musician who, after years of playing bass in Vancouver bar bands, ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival

By Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence, eds.

Strong Women Stories picks up where Kim Anderson’s last book left off. In A Recognition of Being, the Cree/Metis social- and health-policy analyst detailed the ways in which native women have been stereotyped and stripped ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ The Winter Gardeners

By Dennis Denisoff

Giggy Andrewes is the eccentric matriarch of the Winter Garden, an estate where she boards her nephew Jem, his friend Cora, Jem’s lover Rob, and a dog named Chappy. Along with an odd cast of ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All My Friends Are Superheroes

By Andrew Kaufman

As they appear in Andrew Kaufman’s debut novel, Toronto’s superheroes are a rather sad-sack bunch. There’s The Couch Surfer, with the mysterious power to survive on nothing but handfuls of breakfast cereal and slices of ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A House by the Sea

By Sikeena Karmali

Zahra, the narrator of Sikeena Karmali’s A House by the Sea, wants nothing more than “to take my home off my back and lay it down, here, lay my burden down and sort through it.” ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

By Thomas King

Before he became the respected author of such books as Green Grass, Running Water, Thomas King just couldn’t win. When he wore a suit and reasoned like a non-Indian, he wasn’t authentic. When he wore ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Native Peoples

The Salt Roads

By Nalo Hopkinson

The Salt Roads, the new novel from Toronto writer Nalo Hopkinson, is a sprawling, ambitious exploration of mythology and history, race and gender. Hopkinson, who is widely respected for her fantasy writing, casts as her ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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