Working Class Zero

One of the challenges facing the contemporary novelist is to capture the complexities and absurdities of modern life without boring the reader. Rob Payne manages to do this and make us laugh too. In Working ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sea of Tranquility

By Lesley Choyce

Ragged Island, Lesley Choyce’s fictional community off the Nova Scotia mainland, has survived centuries of various economic catastrophes through the entrepreneurial inventiveness of its inhabitants. Recent ventures include Phonse Doucette’s shoot-’em-up junkyard and Moses Slaunwhite’s ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hard Boiled Love: An Anthology of Noir Love

By Kerry Schooley and Peter Sellers, eds.

Hard Boiled Love, the follow-up to last year’s Iced anthology of noir fiction, gets off to a shaky start, but ends up succeeding on the strength of four or five solid tales and one unexpected ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

Children’s Books That Nurture the Spirit

By Louise Margaret Granahan

There are abundant British and American guides to children’s books, but it’s extremely rare to find Canadian titles in their pages. If for no other reason than national pride, we needed McClelland & Stewart’s A ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

A Guide to Canadian Children’s Books

By Deirdre Baker and Ken Setterington

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

★ Ultra Hush-hush: Espionage and Special Missions

By Stephen Shapiro and Tina Forrester, David Craig, illus.

The current world political climate might make it difficult for parents and librarians to consider buying a book about spying during the Second World War. But then again, Ultra Hush-Hush, first in a new series ... Read More »

November 25, 2003

Twenty-six

By Leo McKay Jr.

When those final moments come, and they inevitably will, most of us would like to have our aged heads propped up in a comfortable bed with a nice view of a garden, and to be ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An Aesthetic Underground: A Literary Memoir

By John Metcalf

That John Metcalf has contributed to the development and publishing of Canadian literature is by now a matter of historical record. As an editor, teacher, author, critic, and pioneering anthologist of Canadian fiction, Metcalf was ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing

By Ray Robertson

Ray Robertson is a novelist (best known for his long goodbye to the 1960s, Moody Food), teacher at the University of Toronto, book reviewer, TV pundit, and, most importantly, a perceptive, light-on-his-feet heavyweight critic and ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy

By Terry Copp

At the two Canadian military cemeteries in Normandy, where over 5,000 Canadian citizen-soldiers are buried, modern cynicism shatters in the face of profligate sacrifice. That the sacrifice was not in vain is without doubt. But ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

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