Bafflegab

Almost every page in Bafflegab, Stan Rogal’s second novel, contains an allusion or citation. Orphan Annie’s “leaping lizards!” aside, most of the sources are decidedly weighty. Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, and Stein (amongst others) are invoked as ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Belly Fruit

By Lynnette D’anna

The lines separating sex and violence are often blurred, a fact Lynnette D’anna uses to mixed effect in her latest novel. Belly Fruit explores the collisions between sexuality, obsession, art, and pain, veering in tone ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

When Eve Was Naked

By Josef Skvorecky

Writers of fiction often cringe when readers attempt to draw connections between the life of the writer and their art. Josef Skvorecky’s recently released story collection, When Eve Was Naked, however, not only perpetuates this ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dragons Cry

By Tessa McWatt

If home is where the heart is, in Tessa McWatt’s world, everyone is in trouble. Dragons Cry is a novel about exile – not only from country and culture of origin, but from those to ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Half-known Lives

By Joan Givner

It’s always entertaining for women to speculate about how differently the world might be ordered if men could get pregnant. Child care could become a public policy priority; there would certainly be shifts in the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Rocket Science

By Julia Gaunce

In her first novel, Toronto writer Julia Gaunce leaps nimbly from idea to turn of phrase, using subtle wordplay to delineate her quirky characters’ quirky world. To say that Rocket Science tells the story of ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Ahtahkakoop: The Epic Account of a Plains Cree Head Chief, His People, and Their Struggle for Survival 1816-1896

By Deanna Christensen

Ahtahkakoop is an ambitious book that presents, in minute detail, the life story of Cree chief Ahtahkakoop and, by extension, the culture and history of his people and their relocation to a reserve at Sandy ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Going Some Place: Creative Non-fiction Across Canada

By Lynne Van Luven,ed.

In her introduction to Going Some Place, editor Lynne Van Luven acknowledges that creative non-fiction is a “hybrid genre,” difficult to clearly define and often seen as fancy travel reportage or postmodern personal essay writing. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

One Man at a Time: Secrets of a Serial Monogamist

By Elizabeth Simpson

The title of this memoir might lead the reader to expect a dishy, bitchy, spaghetti-strapped session with a Helen Fielding or a Melissa Bank, the top-girls in the urban dating adventures genre. But the reader ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Pain: Journeys Around My Parents

By Keith Garebian

Keith Garebian’s background is rich with potential autobiographical material. Born to an Armenian father and a mother of mixed Indian and English ancestry, he spent his early years in the polyglot expatriate community in Bombay. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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