With great marks and a full scholarship to Harvard, Leo Caraway – an atypical teen who’s president of his school’s Young Republican club – seems to be on the fast track to success. But when ... Read More »
February 20, 2006
Boys will be boys, whatever the era, and in the 1950s, Maxine Trottier reminds us, they were even more so: trawling the main drag for action, farting, belching, lusting after girls in pointy brassieres, and ... Read More »
February 16, 2006
The top three things to know about comix artist Julie Doucet are: the 39-year-old francophone made her reputation with the autobiographical underground series Dirty Plotte, which painstakingly inked out her chosen territory of obsessiveness, body ... Read More »
February 16, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
The haunting story of the Hervé family – cursed by a genetic fluke that causes them to become either giants or “runts” – provides the impetus for a compelling first novel by Montréal author D.Y. ... Read More »
February 13, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The dancer is like a wounded swan, her graceful neck bowed in the catatonic state that followed the gruesome deaths of her son and husband in a car accident. She is admitted to the Rosewood ... Read More »
February 6, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
It is a paradoxical truth that explaining why something is funny is intrinsically unfunny. It is perhaps for this reason that Drew Hayden Taylor, the editor and compiler of Me Funny, a motley collection of ... Read More »
January 30, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies
Much like her columns, the first novel by hipster Globe and Mail columnist Leah McLaren will titillate some readers with its wit and candour and frustrate others with its giggly, airy quality. But in the ... Read More »
January 23, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
If someone else is suffering enough to write it down/When every single word makes sense/Then it’s easier to have those songs around.” Those wise words were written by Bernie Taupin, and sung by Elton John ... Read More »
January 16, 2006 | Filed under: Reference
Inter Alia is Toronto-based David Seymour’s first book. The first section – a suite of poems that adopts the geological themes and manner of Seymour’s mentor and editor, Don McKay – is rather uninspired. Entitled ... Read More »
January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry
In a prefatory note to her third full-length collection, Edmonton writer Shawna Lemay says, “The reader who wants these poems is the reader who understands the complicated joy that is entwined with sadness.” In the ... Read More »
January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry
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