Cities of Weather

Montreal-based Matthew Fox, an editor at Maisonneuve, has made a promising foray into the short fiction arena. A generally solid, occasionally excellent collection of short stories, Cities of Weather is set largely in urban landscapes ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Dodecahedron or a Frame for Frames

By Paul Glennon

To call The Dodecahedron Paul Glennon’s second “collection” would be a little misleading. Images, phrases, characters, and scenarios recur so frequently over these twelve stories that spotting the skewed correspondences becomes a sort of hallucinatory ... Read More »

June 6, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Engine of Recall

By Karl Schroeder

With its 10 powerful short stories, The Engine of Recall serves as an ideal introduction to the talents of Toronto science fiction writer Karl Schroeder. While his novels have met with considerable success (Permanence was ... Read More »

May 30, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer

By Stuart Ross

For a quick and dirty breath of fresh air, it’s difficult to beat renegade urban poet Stuart Ross’s latest effort. Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is a collection of Ross’s impolite, funny, and occasionally ... Read More »

May 24, 2005 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Ladykiller

By Charlotte Gill

Elmore Leonard’s prime rule for writing reads as follows: “If it sounds like writing, I re-write it.” It is the type of pithy pronouncement that rings with hard-boiled wisdom, but Leonard’s dictum excludes the possibility ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Origin of Haloes

By Kristen den Hartog

"Whole lives are born out of coincidence.” That is the unfortunate premise of this unfortunately titled third novel by Kristen den Hartog. Coincidence is very thin gruel on which to base a story, particularly when ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Treble

By Evelyn Lau

Evelyn Lau’s latest poetry collection contains her signature bleak insights into relationships with an added twist: the poems are written in the second-person voice. The poems in Treble address a variety of subjects, mainly relationships ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Drift

By Kevin Connolly

The poems in Drift, Toronto arts journalist Kevin Connolly’s third collection, make huge imaginative leaps. Driven by surreal imagery and associative wordplay, they are slippery creatures, tough to pin down. At his best, as in ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Souwesto Home

By James Reaney

The thematic keystone to Souwesto Home, the latest collection of poetry from Ontario writer James Reaney, comes late in the volume, in the closing lines of “Ice Cream,” a poem that begins with “the local ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Nothing for Granted: Tales of War, Philosophy, and Why the Right Was Mostly Wrong: Selected Writings 2000-2003

By Mark Kingwell

We have hardly set foot upon the deck of Nothing for Granted, University of Toronto philosophy professor Mark Kingwell’s disappointing and haphazard collection of columns from the National Post, when the author himself rings the ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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