We Are Not in Pakistan

“Studying life everywhere is my job.” This statement, from a reporter in the opening story of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s latest collection of short fiction, reveals the author’s mission. We Are Not in Pakistan is a ... Read More »

October 15, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A House Named Brazil

By Audrey Schulman

Nineteen-year-old Fran’s exploration of her life and her place in the world begins when her mother Gloria, who deserted her five years earlier, suddenly starts phoning every night at six o’clock. Audrey Schulman’s A House ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Well: New and Selected Poems

By Kenneth Sherman

Kenneth Sherman’s collection of new and selected poems spans more than 20 years. The new poems that open The Well reflect the writer’s maturity, his hard-won wisdom, and his sophisticated craft. The selected poems that ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Simone Weil: Songs of Love and Hunger

By Sarah Klassen

The spirit of the philosopher, mystic, pacifist, Jew-turned-Catholic Simone Weil is evoked explicitly in the title of this book of poetry: love and hunger are implicit themes throughout Sarah Klassen’s moving and brilliantly realized lyrical ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-2000

By Heather Spears

On November 14, 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk was beaten and eventually drowned in a picturesque Victoria community known as the Gorge. In the years following her death, several trials led to murder convictions for two ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Out of This World: The Natural History of Milton Acorn

By Chris Gudgeon

In the early 1970s, Milton Acorn was one of Canada’s most famous poets. An antagonistic, argumentative man, his highly acclaimed poems about love, nature, and social and political concerns won him the 1975 Governor General’s ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hunting with Diana

By David Watmough

David Watmough’s latest novel, Hunting With Diana, is a series of “connected fictions” inspired by the author’s obsessive reading of Greek myths. Hoping to “reincarnate these ancient treasures into the ultimate of contemporary literary fabrics,” ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Queer View Mirror 2: Lesbian and Gay Short Short Fiction

By James C. Johnstone,Karen X. Tulchinsky, eds.

It is unlikely 100 fine short stories are written per year. The form requires distillation and hard work, the exclusion of the irrelevant and microscopic enhancements of what’s crucial. Queer View Mirror 2 is a ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Anthologies

Once upon an Elephant

By Ashok Mathur

The title brings to mind a fairy tale, but the author is being unnecessarily modest, as if trying to cram a mighty, incandescent genie into a very ordinary bottle. Once Upon an Elephant is certainly ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Polaroids from the Dead

By Douglas Coupland

The “Polaroids” that give Douglas Coupland’s new collection of essays and short stories its title are a series of 10 vignettes, each focusing on the experiences of different people attending a Grateful Dead concert in ... Read More »

October 10, 2007 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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