Wolf and the Seven Little Kids

One of the classic folk tales about danger, disaster, and recovery, the Brothers Grimm story of the wolf who impersonates mother, gains entry to the house, and eats up the little kids is almost too ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Stoneboat

By Teddy Jam, Ange Zhang, illus.

Mr. Richard is a giant of a man. He towers above the world like a big black-bearded statue with an old stained fedora perched on his head. He owns the best land in the township, ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Country Matters

By Tom Zsolt

Ontario’s ever-changing landscape, rural inhabitants, and crumbling architecture are the subjects of Tom Zsolt’s elegiac Country Matters. With the same measure of care that an art restorer brings to a faded painting, Zsolt’s photographs reveal ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Ethnicities: Plays from the New West

By Padma Viswanathan, Marty Chan, Jonathan Christenson, and Joey Tremblay

In the introduction, Anne Nothof says that what these recent plays have in common is “their resistance to the hegemony of Anglo society.” Perhaps, but all three are also finely crafted, imaginative plays from innovative ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Running to Paradise: A Play About Elizabeth Bishop

By Donna E. Smyth

Shortly before she died in 1979, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop received an honorary degree from Dalhousie University. Bishop was born in Massachusetts, but was raised by her grandparents in Great Village, Nova Scotia. She ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Geometry of the Odd

By Stan Rogal

Stan Rogal’s fourth book of poems opens with an “introduction” by Andrew Marvell, who, as he explains, has been “summoned” to comment on Rogal’s manuscript. The 17th-century ghost offers a textbook definition of metaphysical verse ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Skin Divers

By Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels’ third collection of poetry continues the work of her groundbreaking 1996 novel, Fugitive Pieces. Readers who know Michaels through her novel alone will recognize the striking lyricism of Skin Divers. A profound interest ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Am I Disturbing You?

By Anne Hébert, Sheila Fischman, trans.

The problem with pursuing the ineffable is that nine times out 10 what you produce is the ineffectual, and I’m afraid this novel does not represent, for Anne Hébert, that elusive 10th time. What we ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Bench on Which to Rest: The Diary of an Emigrant, a Novel

By Elena Maccaferri

A Bench on Which to Rest by Elena Mac-caferri is a simple tale, simply told. In a little more than 100 pages, Climene recounts her journey from her village in the hills of northern Italy ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Girls Around the House

By M.A.C. Farrant

In her sixth book, Girls Around the House, Sidney, B.C., writer M.A.C. Farrant has created an alter-ego in Marion – fiction writer, mother of three teenage children, and wife – who banters and kvetches amiably ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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