Jennifer Duncan is the sort of person you’d like to meet around a campfire or at a cozy pub on a snowy night – a true woman of the Yukon, a woman who can tell ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Ted Chamberlin teaches comparative literature at the University of Toronto and has worked on native land claims in the United States, Canada, Africa, and Australia. He is also a former poetry editor for Saturday Night ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History
Those familiar with University of Toronto philosopher, critic, and media-wunderkind Mark Kingwell’s work may find the subject of his latest book, trout fishing, somewhat unlikely. Or not. Catch & Release is ostensibly a memoir dealing ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Reference
Historian Bill Waiser has done a remarkable job of resurrecting a landmark, but ill-remembered, chapter in Canadian history with his excellent depiction of the 1935 On-to-Ottawa protest trek. The trek to Ottawa was a country-wide ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History
Robert Pickton has been accused of crimes that, if he’s convicted, would make him the worst serial killer in Canadian history. But few Canadians could likely name even one of the women he is charged ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Succession is another tale of the strains and glories of homecoming, told here through a sequence of linked stories connected to Al, a journeyman musician who, after years of playing bass in Vancouver bar bands, ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Transient Dancing, Gale Zoë Garnett’s follow-up novel to her much-acclaimed Visible Amazement, opens in 1995 with a brawl between the only two black men on a small Greek island. The men are Johnny Reed, an ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Toronto author Kim Moritsugu’s third novel takes place in a slightly altered version of her home city. As she explains in an afterword, she’s combined the two neighbourhoods of Rosedale and Moore Park to create ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Set in the harrowing years of the Depression, the Second World War, and the Holocaust, Karen Tulchinsky’s The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky is a major departure for the Vancouver novelist, screenwriter, and editor of ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Already a bestseller in France, Nancy Huston’s latest novel is both an affecting portrait of real and sympathetic characters and literary high art. Taking the form of the direct testimony of witnesses at a murder ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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