★ Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia

Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid are renowned for their award-winning cookbooks, Flatbreads and Flavours and Seductions of Rice. Like those two offerings, their new book, Hot Sour Salty Sweet, arises from their passion for travel ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

City of Glass: Douglas Coupland’s Vancouver

By Douglas Coupland

Reviewing (and reading, for that matter) Douglas Coupland is made difficult by Coupland’s approach to writing. One can never be sure if the perceived weaknesses or shortcomings are inadvertent or the result of some postmodern ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Young Men

By Russell Smith

These stories, in the main, are a kind of anthropological foray that might have been subtitled “Failing to Come of Age in Toronto.” “Slaves of Queen Street” or “Dimmish Lights, Middling City” would also have ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Long Shadows

By Erna Paris

As Erna Paris’s life was “forever altered” by a chance visit to a Nazi death camp, the reader too is forever changed by reading Long Shadows, her monumental study of the schism between real and ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Song of Ascent

By Gabriella Goliger

After the literature of the Holocaust comes the literature of the Holocaust’s children. Spared the immediate horrors of the Second World War, they are left with the more subtle task of witnessing the witnesses – ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Cargo of Orchids

By Susan Musgrave

Susan Musgrave’s first novel in over 10 years has everything her readers might expect from her: rich, lyrical language, bizarre imagery, and an intimate familiarity with the state-sanctioned indignities inflicted on prison inmates. Musgrave’s anonymous ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By a Frozen River: The Short Stories of Norman Levine

By Norman Levine

Norman Levine’s short stories enjoy a higher reputation in Europe than in Canada, perhaps because Levine’s craft is too quietly impressionistic, too expertly minimalistic for some home-grown readers. By a Frozen River, a collection of ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Only a Lower Paradise and Other Stories

By Michael Bryson

It’s not often that a short story collection makes you want to reread William Blake, but Michael Bryson’s Only a Lower Paradise does just that. While Blake presides over the entire work, it is in ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Fit Month for Dying

By M.T. Dohaney

From page one, A Fit Month for Dying, the final novel in a trilogy chronicling the trials of the Corrigan family, promises heartbreak. “Sooner or later life’ll break the heart of ye,” warns Bertha Corrigan, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Charisma

By Margaret Christakos

How do you like your sex? In Charisma, first-time novelist Margaret Christakos fills the pages with detailed and rather poetic descriptions of sex between women and women, men and women, men and men – with ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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