High Flight: Aviation and the Canadian Imagination

Although history professor Jonathan Vance clearly began his research on High Flight long before the tragedy of Sept. 11, his meticulously researched book nevertheless comes at a time when Canadians are paying special attention to ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

Shakespeare’s Face: Is This the Face of Genius?

By Stephanie Nolen

When her mother mentioned to journalist Stephanie Nolen that a neighbour had a one-of-a-kind portrait of William Shakespeare that might be worth a lot of money, little did the younger Nolen realize that her pursuit ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Recurring Fictions

By Wendy McGrath

Recurring Fictions, Wendy McGrath’s first novel and second book after the poetry collection common place ecstasies, is a prose poem about growing up on the Prairies. The book opens as a meditation on the sound ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sweeter Life

By Tim Wynveen

The song remains the same in most rock and roll novels. Often thinly veiled memoirs, they’re crammed with a few anecdotes of life on the road but little of the human mechanics that make good ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Waterborne

By Joanne Soper-Cook

Like Frederico Garcia Lorca and playwrights Sean O’Casey and John Millington Synge, Newfoundland writer Joanne Soper-Cook instinctively understands the deep-rooted relationship between person and place. No matter where people find themselves, we are told, they ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Karnival

By Michael Mortensen

From its evocative opening sentences to its startling yet inevitable finale, Karnival, the debut novel from American expatriate and long-time Toronto resident Michael Mortensen, weaves a compelling spell. Mortensen draws on his 15 years of ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Dutch Wife

By Eric McCormack

From the novel’s first image – a stall-keeper idly winding an endless parasite out of his belly – this is vintage Eric McCormack Gothic. That horrifying “Guinea worm,” along with other curious phrases such as ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Rogues’ Wedding

By Terry Griggs

Anyone who thinks writing is not a visual art should take a peek at Terry Griggs’ second novel, Rogues’ Wedding. Set in Ontario in 1898, the story follows Grif Smolders as he flees northward from ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tom Thomson’s Last Paddle

By Larry McCloskey

In Tom Thomson’s Last Paddle, Ottawa author Larry McCloskey puts an intrepid pair of 12-year-old crime-solving girls, Dani and Caitlin, on the trail of a wilderness mystery that’s rooted in Canadian history. The girls, on ... Read More »

January 12, 2004

Tess

By Jocelyn Reekie

Writing in the voice of a character living 150 years ago, a contemporary author has tricky choices to make about language and idiom, and about attitudes to social issues on which public opinion has changed ... Read More »

January 12, 2004

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