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

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

★ No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies

By Naomi Klein

Toronto journalist Naomi Klein’s No Logo is certain to become a well-thumbed handbook for consumer activists, but it will hardly thrill fashion doyennes, advertising moguls, or mega-corporation CEOs.Klein writes with passion and panache, skewering ever-burgeoning ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Cat’s Crossing

By Bill Cameron

One of Toronto’s most prominent television anchors makes his first foray into fiction with this novel about a city ignited by a $2-million reward for a lost cat. When Julia discovers that her cat Jones ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Streak of Luck

By Richelle Kosar

For her second novel, Toronto writer Richelle Kosar imagines that life-altering event that we’ve all dreamed of at one time or another – winning the lottery. Appropriately, she uses this plot vehicle to discuss the ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Broken Accidents

By Phlip Arima

In this collection of punchy short-short stories, performance poet Phlip Arima delivers a quirky mix: dark satire of our preoccupation with convenience, consumerism, and convention; surreal journeys into the subconscious; and confounding dialogues. When they ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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