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Invisible Armies

By Jon Evans

Jon Evans’ previous two novels featured travellers who had an amazing ability to get themselves into all sorts of trouble while we watched them run for their lives and outsmart their attackers. Evans has a ... Read More »

June 26, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Miss Lamp

By Chris Ewart

There is no enduring tradition of experimental fiction in Canada. Despite the perennial appearance of Leonard Cohen’s second novel, Beautiful Losers, on university English literature syllabuses, and despite the heroic efforts of a small handful ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Ancient Thunder

By Leo Yerxa

It has taken time, but he has done it again. Leo Yerxa, Ojibwe artist-author of the multi-award-winning Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall (1993), has produced another surefire prize contender with this tribute to the ... Read More »

June 19, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

De Niro’s Game

By Rawi Hage

There’s an adjective that has too long languished in the negative camp of book reviews. I’d like to reclaim it. Calling prose “flat” is usually one of the less hurtful ways of saying that a ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Aiken Drum

By Peter Sanger

Nova Scotia-based poet and critic Peter Sanger is the author or editor of some 15 books. In Aiken Drum, his sixth collection of poetry, he continues his engagement with the subjects of his previous works ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry