Digging into this historical adventure set in the eighth century BC, I felt more like a child reader than usual, because the story features the Kushites, an ancient African nation that I had never heard ... Read More »
May 30, 2007
The worlds of banking and literature seldom meet, and probably for good reason. There’s not much drama to be found in the facts and figures of the financial district. Or is there?Bank is the debut ... Read More »
May 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
A decade ago, when Oprah launched her book club juggernaut, stuffy literati worldwide – especially authors of books not chosen – knee-jerkingly condemned the idea of one person dictating what the masses should read. Those ... Read More »
May 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In the annals of confessional Loser Lit, few capture the minute details of their own downfall with as much glee and obsessiveness as cartoonist Joe Matt. Matt, an American who lived in Toronto for years ... Read More »
May 29, 2007 | Filed under: Graphica
With this novel, Dave Duncan, the prolific Victoria-based science fiction and fantasy writer, brings to a close the duology begun with 2006’s Children of Chaos. Mother of Lies is a solid sequel that carries all ... Read More »
May 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
A Journeyman to Grief is Maureen Jennings’ seventh Detective Murdoch mystery, and each has been as good as, or better than, the last. Within a few pages of her new novel we are so firmly ... Read More »
May 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
What to call Nalo Hopkinson’s new novel? Entertaining, for sure, but is it fantasy? Magic realism? An ecological cautionary tale? Or is it first and foremost the story of a tough, smart, funny, fiftysomething woman ... Read More »
May 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Janice Kulyk Keefer’s new novel starts out like something by John Updike – young mothers spending the summer at beach cottages and getting together on Friday afternoons to drink gin and to gossip about each ... Read More »
May 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
With this, her seventh novel, Cordelia Strube carries on with the brand of dystopic fiction that has become her trademark. The Strubian novel can be characterized thus: it has an ensemble of emotionally or physically ... Read More »
May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Neil Bissoondath’s The Age of Confession was the inaugural Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture, delivered in Moncton in April 2006 as part of the Northrop Frye Festival. The objective of this new lecture series, according to ... Read More »
May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
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