Reviews

Old Scores: A Barry Gilbert Mystery

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

River of the Brokenhearted

By David Adams Richards

And you thought the Kennedys had it bad with a couple of assassinations and a plane crash. The latest saga by Giller Prize-winner David Adams Richards centres on a family so cursed and shoved about ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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

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

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 Speaking Cure

By David Homel

Shot through with gallows humour and a brand of wartime slapstick, David Homel’s The Speaking Cure communicates a subtle and powerful anti-censorship message while blurring already shifty lines between right and wrong, victim and oppressor. ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Betrayer

By Michael Hennessey

Mention orphans and Prince Edward Island, and Anne Shirley immediately springs to mind. As Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s creation has become an island industry. Mickey Casey – the nasty, drunken, murderous narrator ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake

By Janet Warner

Janet Warner’s Other Sorrows, Other Joys will please three kinds of readers. New Age enthusiasts will like the novel’s description of Blake’s ecstasies; poetry and art lovers will delight in the accounts of his creative ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Coyote: A Mystery

By Brian Brett

With his new novel, Saltspring Island poet and novelist Brian Brett has created a postmodern, Gulf Island-based, Buddhism-infused, eco-psycho-killer thriller. Coyote is at once leisurely paced and thrilling, thought-provoking and humorous, character-focussed and intellectually challenging. ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure

By Maria Coffey

Following the death of Maria Coffey’s life partner, elite British mountaineer Joe Tasker, on Everest’s then-unclimbed Northeast Ridge in 1985, Coffey moved to Canada and reinvented herself as a writer. Her first book, Fragile Edge, ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Prev 679 680681682 683....699 700 Next