An English Gentleman

This year marks the centenary of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. None of the planned commemorations of this event is likely to be as interesting as An English Gentleman, Sky Gilbert’s fourth novel and easily his ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Galveston

By Paul Quarrington

Paul Quarrington’s lovely and amazing ninth novel is about a motley group of hurricane chasers who encounter the Force Five disturbance of their dreams. In that sense, this novel is the tale of an oddball ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nine-Tenths Unseen: A Psychological Mystery

By Kenneth J. Harvey

I hope it’s not giving away too much to say that much of the “psychological mystery” of Kenneth J. Harvey’s new novel is which partner in this dark tale of a couple in an isolated ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Muck

By N.J. Dodic

N.J. Dodic, in his second novel, Muck, adds an intriguing wrinkle to the convention of basing a novel around the interplay between a main text and its “editor’s” footnotes, which occurs most famously in Pale ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Cure for Death by Lightning

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Halfway through Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s debut novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, I flipped to the publication data expecting to confirm my suspicions that the author was born sometime around the Great Depression. She wasn’t. ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Photographer’s Sweethearts

By Diana Hartog

There is much that is praiseworthy in The Photographer’s Sweethearts, the first novel written by the poet Diana Hartog. As one might expect, given the reputation Hartog’s earned with her three volumes of poetry, her ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fall on Your Knees

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

In a 1990 interview, Ann-Marie MacDonald said she is haunted by “the mythic place called Cape Breton,” and that her imagination projects “an aura of magic, of mystery” onto its landscape and residents. Predictably, her ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Self: A Novel

By Yann Martel

Yann Martel is probably best known for “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios,” which first appeared in the Malahat Review in 1990 and subsequently in the third Journey Prize Anthology and after that as the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fugitive Pieces

By Anne Michaels

Fugitive Pieces, a first novel from poet Anne Michaels, is a curious hybrid of fiction and threnody. In its opening scene, set in Poland during World War II, a little Jewish boy emerges from “the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Omnivores

By Lydia Millet

In Lydia Millet’s debut novel, everything’s lunch, potentially. That’s to say that whoever you are in this novel – whether a moth or a web-worm or one or another of the human characters – you’re ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Prev 161 162163164 165....238 239 Next

Quill and Quire

An English Gentleman

★ Galveston

Nine-Tenths Unseen: A Psychological Mystery

Muck

★ The Cure for Death by Lightning

★ The Photographer’s Sweethearts

Fall on Your Knees

Self: A Novel

Fugitive Pieces

Omnivores

Job Board