The Devil Out There

The connections between the linked stories of Julie Keith’s assured new collection at first seem tenuous, distracting even. Instead of responding to each tale on its own terms, we find ourselves, like small-town gossips, looking ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Night Train to Nykøbing

By Kristjana Gunnars

The strongest emotion that Kristjana Gunnars elicits with her latest novel, Night Train to Nykøbing, is that of longing. Throughout the novel, the unnamed female narrator waits, unsure of what she’s waiting for. Born in ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Forty Words for Sorrow

By Giles Blunt

With Forty Words for Sorrow, a portrait of a string of murders in small-town northern Ontario, author Giles Blunt has delivered something Canadian crime writers could hitherto never quite get right: a uniquely Canuck template ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Island: The Collected Stories

By Alistair MacLeod

Fourteen of the 16 stories in Island have appeared in Alistair MacLeod’s two earlier short fiction collections. But it is the title story, one of the two new to book form, that epitomizes the theme ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Grand Eye for Glory: A Life of Franz Johnston

By Roger Burford Mason

Franz Johnston was the most prolific and financially successful artist of the original Group of Seven. Yet few people have heard of him. In the mid-1920s and until his death in 1949, Johnston’s paintings were ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

This All Happened

By Michael Winter

It’s amazing how the most mundane tasks can be elevated to an artform when you know you should be doing something else. The mere act of folding laundry becomes a form of terry-cloth origami in ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Restlessness

By Aritha van Herk

As a writer, Aritha van Herk is like an ideal lover: constant and naughty. While she passionately rejects plot and its romance, and blends the roles of writer and reader, van Herk’s lascivious imagination tries ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mystical Rose

By Richard Scrimger

Rose Rolyoke, the protagonist of Richard Scrimger’s new novel Mystical Rose, stands in the heady company of Margaret Laurence’s Hagar Shipley and Carol Shields’ Daisy Goodwill. They’re all aging Canadian women looking back at the ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Garden of Eden

By Sharon Butala

Saskatchewan writer Sharon Butala, best known for her critically acclaimed work of creative non-fiction, The Perfection of the Morning, returns to fiction with her latest book. The Garden of Eden furthers her exploration of prairie ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Luminosity

By Frank & Gillian

This first novel by the duo Frank and Gillian, who have previously collaborated on a number of books and plays for young people, has a promising, ingenious plot. Richard and Breetz have been best friends ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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