Queer Film Classics: Trash

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, notes author Jon Davies in his new study of the counterculture classic Trash, a 1970 film produced by Andy Warhol and directed by Paul Morrissey. But what it ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

On the Head of a Pin

By Janet Kellough

The death of a son or daughter is capable of producing emotional devastation from which it is nearly impossible to recover. For Thaddeus Lewis, a preacher who travels throughout Upper Canada in the late 1830s, ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blood and Groom

By Jill Edmondson

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Love Struck

By Chantel Simmons

Chick lit: love it or hate it, it must be acknowledged that there are good examples of the maligned genre and not-so-good examples. Chantel Simmons’ debut, 2007’s Stuck in Downward Dog, was the former, with ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Something Remains

By Hassan Gehdi Santur

One-time war photographer Andrew Christensen, the main character in this debut novel, now takes portraits of willing customers who enter the cab he drives around Toronto. Andrew’s mother, Ella, has just died of cancer, and ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Parabolist

By Nicholas Ruddock

Occasionally the title of a book contains such an obscure word that the reviewer is forced to begin his or her review with a dictionary definition. In the case of Nicholas Ruddock’s The Parabolist, though, ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dog Eat Rat

By Tom Walmsley

The characters in Toronto poet and playwright Tom Walmsley’s new novel, Dog Eat Rat, have sex. Some of them have other occupations, like private investigator, but their jobs leave them empty and with a lot ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Forbidden Heat

By Opal Carew

Forbidden Heat, the latest erotic novel by Opal Carew, is unfortunately lacking in both aspects of its titular promise. Relying heavily on trite phrases, clichéd situations, and stereotypical notions of feminine desire, the book is ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Amazing Absorbing Boy

By Rabindranath Maharaj

Here we go: another Canadian novel about the immigrant experience – set in present-day Toronto, but with Toronto meant to stand for Canada as a whole. In the hands of Rabindranath Maharaj, we are led ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

From This Distance

By Karen McLaughlin

Karen McLaughlin’s second novel incorporates similar themes to those of her first, 1995’s Choral. From This Distance examines women’s relationships with each other and the damage those relationships can do. This is frequently travelled fictional ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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