★ The Eleventh Hour: Poems for the New Millennium

One of the recurring themes for public discussion in the latter years of the 1990s has been the end of the century, made particularly significant because it harbingers the end of one millennium and the ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Finding Kate’s Shoes

By Erica Dornbusch

This trio of Annick Press books for the very young invites lively interaction between parent and child, talking about the pictures and relating them to the child’s own experience. Pierre Pratt, who has won many ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

I See . . . My Sister / I See . . . My Cat

By Pierre Pratt

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

I See . . . My Mom / I See . . . My Dad

By Pierre Pratt

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ For a Modest God

By Eric Ormsby

Eric Ormsby, born in Atlanta, is a professor of Near Eastern Studies at McGill University, and his poetry has been published in major American and Canadian literary periodicals, and is included in the current Norton ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

If I Were Me

By Clark Blaise

If I were Lander – guilt-ridden main character, failed father and husband, famous neurolinguist – I might be less forgiving of myself. So why does author Clark Blaise allow his character to find so much ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Under Emily’s Sky

By Ann Alma

As this book opens, Lee’s mother forces Lee’s alcoholic father to leave the family. Eleven-year-old Lee can’t express her overwhelming anger, which abates only at school next day when the teacher shows slides of Emily ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Lydia Thrippe! A Critic’s Diary Followed by the Lydiad

By Daniel Sloate

At university I was given a secondhand copy of a literary anthology, with a free form novel-in-progress attached. The book had been owned by a celebrated Upper Canada College academic, who had scribbled thousands of ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nothing Sacred: The Many Lives and Betrayals of Albert Walker

By Alan Cairns

The story of Albert Walker has all the elements of a lurid mystery: high finance, international fugitives, incest, and finally, murder. Walker fled to England from Canada in 1990, taking with him his 15-year-old daughter, ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs