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Blackouts

By Craig Boyko

The title of Victoria-based Craig Boyko’s debut collection refers to many things, sometimes literally and other times more obliquely: the mandatory darkening of homes and streets during the Blitz; a person passing out due to ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Asylum

By André Alexis

There is a tendency among today’s more ambitious novelists to ignore or minimize the messy, contradictory inner lives of their characters in favour of highlighting broader sociological, technological, and political themes. In the big contemporary ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Orphic Politics

By Tim Lilburn

Orphic Politics is the seventh collection from Victoria-based poet Tim Lilburn, the first since his GG-winning Kill-Site. In this new book, he sings his traditional eco-mystical preoccupations in what has become his signature style. Lilburn ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

The Calling

By Inger Ash Wolfe

One of the nice things about reviewing The Calling, the first novel from pseudonymous “well-known and well-regarded North American writer” Inger Ash Wolfe, is that one can avoid entirely the question of who Wolfe is ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sun Going Down

By Jack Todd

Jack Todd is best-known for his hard-hitting sports journalism in Montreal’s The Gazette and his 2001 memoir of dodging the draft, The Taste of Metal. Unfortunately, the road from non-fiction to fiction is not always ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels