★ A Story as Sharp as a Knife: An Introduction to Classical Haida Literature

Scene: Christmas in Victoria, the parlour of a 1914 Arts and Crafts revamp. The floors are first- growth fir, there is dark wainscotting, the ceilings are high. A chatty cocktail soirée for periodical writers who ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art

By Allan J. Ryan

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Understanding Modern Art: The Boundless Spirit of Clay Edgar Spohn

By David Beasley

Lots of artists have the talent to become noted masters, but more than just creativeness is required to reach greatness. It takes an enormous ego, unfailing gumption, and blind determination. Many who inherit creativity but ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives

By Renée Hulan, ed.

Until very recently, aboriginal literature (AbLit) in Canada was dismissed as protest literature, or, worse, used as the basis for ethnographic study of aboriginal culture. Although this has changed somewhat in recent years, there is ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Fit to Print

By Alan Halsey and Karen Mac Cormack

Alan Halsey and Karen Mac Cormack invest the mundane newspaper column with striking poetic resonance in Fit to Print, a collection of poems whose exuberant invention recalls tabloid coverage of the moment. Arranged in one ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Last Thing My Father Gave Me

By Ernest Hekkanen

Ernest Hekkanen’s large body of work – he is the author of more than a dozen books including novels, poetry, and non-fiction – has been largely overlooked by the literary mainstream. This is partly because ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Bite the Stars

By Eliza Clark

For a populist form, country music is not to everyone’s taste. Its smooth and stylized emotions can seem a world away from the unvarnished pain of the blues. But once in a rare while, a ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Get on Top

By David Homel

David Homel has delivered unto us a novel-length parable of sex, violence, sin, and a dusty old Jewish prophet-peddler’s wish to reveal the Messiah. The Messiah in this novel is Sabbitha Hunter, an 18-year-old blond ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Close to the Fire

By David Helwig

A decade ago David Helwig was an Ontario novelist, poet, scriptwriter, and editor, publishing the substantial narratives of a writer in his prime. He now lives on Prince Edward Island, and Close to the Fire, ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Old Flames

By Kim Moritsugu

A one-time aspiring Broadway hoofer-turned-banking-flunky, Beth Robinson has quit her job to stay home and raise her two young daughters while her husband works in downtown Toronto. She cleans the basement, rakes the leaves, makes ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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