Hope in the Desperate Hour

New Brunswick’s David Adams Richards’ new novel, Hope in the Desperate Hour, may be heavy on the “desperate” and light on the “hope,” but he writes about sadness so well and with such just sympathy ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Shark in the House

By Dorris Heffron

A Shark in the House starts promisingly enough: on page two our narrator, a Toronto dentist by the name of Holly Kowalski, breaks a professional confidence or two to report that her clients Timothy Findley ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In Another Place, Not Here

By Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand’s 1990 volume of poetry, No Language Is Neutral, sold over 6,000 copies, a remarkable number, even with a Governor General’s Award nomination. Her first novel will please those intrigued with Brand’s politically mediated, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Teaching Pigs to Sing

By Cordelia Strube

“Nothing, like something, happens anywhere,” the poet Philip Larkin said. At its best, Cordelia Strube’s third novel, Teaching Pigs to Sing, manages to make something out of nothing. Regrettably, this story of Rita Johnson, a ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Arousing the Goddess

By Tim Ward

Susan Sontag concludes her essay, “Against Interpretation,” with an admonition to critics: “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.” I thought of Sontag’s essay while reading Tim Ward’s wonderful new novel, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Gryphon

By Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock’s Griffin and Sabine series takes a new twist in The Gryphon with the introduction of two new correspondents, Matthew and Isabella. The book features letters and cards between Sabine and Matthew, Griffin and ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sex of the Stars

By Monique Proulx, Matt Cohen, trans.

One of the most interesting authors to emerge from Quebec in recent years, Monique Proulx writes for radio, television, and films in addition to her award-winning fiction. She won two literary prizes for her 1983 ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Honour

By Ann Decter

Ann Decter’s second novel, Honour, tells the stories of three friends in the midst of self-discovery. Honour is a feminist melting pot from which Decter pulls her characters Marie, Jane, and Shulamit Weiss and molds ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Green Library

By Janice Kulyk Keefer

Every once in a while, an author effects a haunting. She creates a place, a time, a mood that endures past the “real time” required to read her work. In her new novel, The Green ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All Families Are Psychotic

By Douglas Coupland

With All Families Are Psychotic author Douglas Coupland has completed a seven-novel mission: he’s finally moved his characters out of the rumpus room.Rumpus rooms have always figured prominently in Coupland’s universe of protracted, distracted youngishness. ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Hope in the Desperate Hour

A Shark in the House

In Another Place, Not Here

Teaching Pigs to Sing

★ Arousing the Goddess

The Gryphon

Sex of the Stars

Honour

★ The Green Library

All Families Are Psychotic

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