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Rousseau’s Garden

Elegant and cosmopolitan, Ann Charney’s Rousseau’s Garden, is a novel of mid-life preoccupations. Claire, a Montreal photographer, has recently married Adrian, an art historian, their tasteful match cemented by a close physical relationship. But if ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Dolce Agonia

By Nancy Huston

The dinner party has long been a handy plot device for writers. Consider the delicious possibilities: a diverse cast of characters, secret agendas, smoldering affairs, equal parts dialogue and inner monologue, the chance to toss ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Bitten

By Kelley Armstrong

Elena, a successful magazine writer in downtown Toronto, is keeping a secret from her live-in lover: a biological clock compels her to change into a wolf and run unhindered through the city’s parks and ravines ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters

By Barbara Meadowcroft

The landscape, portrait, and still life paintings of Montreal’s Beaver Hall group are not nearly as well known as works by the Group of Seven. Yet, like their more famous contemporaries, the Beaver Hall artists ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Marian Engel’s Notebooks: “ah, Mon Cahier, Ecoute…”

By Christl Verduyn,ed.

When Marian Engel died prematurely in 1985 she had published two collections of short fiction and seven novels, including Bear, which won the Governor General’s Award. From the age of 10 she had also kept ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction

By Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers, eds.

Despite their overheated introduction, in which they refer to Iced as “an Uzi in a literary hothouse,” editors Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers understand that noir fiction, like revenge, is a dish best served ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Elusive Subject: A Biographer’s Life

By Phyllis Grosskurth

Phyllis Grosskurth found her vocation as a biographer relatively late in life. After spending years as a wife (her first husband was a naval officer) and as a mother, she went to graduate school and ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Condesa of M.

By George Szanto

Jorge, a Canadian professor of criminology, is honeymooning in west central Mexico with Rissa, his second wife, and her 10-year-old daughter, Kikki. He’s also pursuing, on behalf of PEN Canada, the case of Mono Loro, ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Russländer

By Sandra Birdsell

Imagination thrives on history and geography, and Sandra Birdsell’s imagination is fecund. The Russländer is her fifth book and the first to probe her maternal ancestral origins, her Mennonite roots in Russia. Birdsell – who ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phuc Story

By Denise Chong

It is one of the most recognizable and potent images of the 20th century: a naked girl runs screaming along a dirt road toward the camera, the sky behind her dark and burning with napalm. ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Quill and Quire

Rousseau’s Garden

Dolce Agonia

Bitten

Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters

Marian Engel’s Notebooks: “ah, Mon Cahier, Ecoute…”

Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction

Elusive Subject: A Biographer’s Life

The Condesa of M.

★ The Russländer

The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phuc Story

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