Time and Chance: The Political Memoirs of Canada’s First Woman Prime Minister

Anyone expecting to be enthralled by Kim Campbell’s memoirs will be disappointed. The events related are too recent and familiar for immediate excitement. Moreover, Kim Campbell lacks an eye for the telling detail, a gift ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez

By Gregory Scofield

Native Canadiana is the second offering from B.C.’s Dorothy Livesay Award-winning poet Gregory Scofield. As a sophomore effort it’s a provocative but somewhat disappointing book, one that leaves me uneasy because I find it almost ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Fugitive Pieces

By Anne Michaels

Fugitive Pieces, a first novel from poet Anne Michaels, is a curious hybrid of fiction and threnody. In its opening scene, set in Poland during World War II, a little Jewish boy emerges from “the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Omnivores

By Lydia Millet

In Lydia Millet’s debut novel, everything’s lunch, potentially. That’s to say that whoever you are in this novel – whether a moth or a web-worm or one or another of the human characters – you’re ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hope in the Desperate Hour

By David Adams Richards

New Brunswick’s David Adams Richards’ new novel, Hope in the Desperate Hour, may be heavy on the “desperate” and light on the “hope,” but he writes about sadness so well and with such just sympathy ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Wolves of Woden

By Alison Baird

Often sequels end up being paler versions of the original. Happily, Alison Baird’s latest, the prequel to The Hidden World, actually improves upon its predecessor, creating an exciting and often truly magical narrative that will ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

A Prairie as Wide as the Sea

By Sarah Ellis

When Ivy Weatherall sets out for Canada from England in 1926 she is as hopeful as her family that life in Saskatchewan will be better. Her aunt has given her a diary and she is ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

Island 1: Shipwreck

By Gordon Korman

To one desert island, add some washed-up representatives of the human race. See how long they last. It’s a formula that worked for Robinson Crusoe, Lord of the Flies, and last year’s Survivor series. Now ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

The Saltbox Sweater

By Janet McNaughton

Saltbox houses, named for the long, sloping roof in back that resembles the lid of an old fashioned saltbox, have lined the East Coast for up to 300 years. So, when Granny’s saltbox house comes ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

A Shark in the House

By Dorris Heffron

A Shark in the House starts promisingly enough: on page two our narrator, a Toronto dentist by the name of Holly Kowalski, breaks a professional confidence or two to report that her clients Timothy Findley ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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