Elephant Winter

Sophie’s mother – an artist, only 49 – calls to say she is dying of cancer and who will look after her birds? Sophie returns to southern Ontario from Africa and takes on much greater ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Coming Attractions 96

By Diane Schoemperlen, ed.

The short story is not, despite reports, Canadian by birth or naturalization. Still, every so often you’ll hear us claiming custody, ready to point to some quasi-demographic mirage showing that Canadians produce more extraordinary writers ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Best Canadian Stories 96

By Douglas Glover, ed.

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Days of Miracles and Wonders: A Novel of East and West

By Simon Louvish

A jet-setting doctor named Angel performs surgery in the war zones of Beirut before his mysterious kidnapping. A reincarnated English king named Richard the Lionheart travels modern-day Middle Eastern battlefields, dreaming blood-spattered dreams of his ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Canadian Crime Fiction

By David Skene-Melvin

Canadian Crime Fiction is a massive bibliography of Canadian crime writing compiled by David Skene-Melvin, assisted by Norbery Spehner, whose earlier work (written with Yvon Allard), Ecrits sur le roman policier, Bibliographie (Collection Paralitté-ratures, Le ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

This Ragged Place: Travels Across the Landscape

By Terry Glavin

The “ragged place” in Terry Glavin’s splendid book is British Columbia. Not glossy downtown Vancouver or the clipped precincts of Victoria, but the sloughs and inlets and broken volcanic valleys located at the edges of ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries

By Di Brandt

By the standards of everyday discourse, feminist, Mennonite poet Di Brandt appears to be a bundle of paradoxes – if not an absolute oxymoron. But the Manitoba writer’s collection of essays, Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Sex in the Snow: Canadian Social Values at the End of the Millennium

By Michael Adams

What is it with these guys? Earlier this year we had demographer David Foot telling us in Boom, Bust and Echo that demographic research explains “two-thirds of everything.” Then we had Angus Reid warning in ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

At Grandpa’s Sugar Bush

By Margaret Carney, Janet Wilson, illus.

This straightforward account of maple syrup making is told in first person by a boy of about seven. He and his grandfather drill holes, tap in spiles (spouts driven into the trees), hang pails, and ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Wagner Whacker

By Joseph Romain

This is one of Vanwell’s first excursions into children’s fiction and it promises good things. Matt Killburn is miserable because his mother is making him move from Kitchener to a farm in the country, leaving ... Read More »

March 5, 2004

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