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The Empress Letters

By Linda Rogers

What are the images conjured up by the city of Victoria? For me it’s tea at the Empress Hotel, a fairy-tale legislature, wonderful arts-and-crafts architecture, Butchart Gardens, and hanging baskets of flowers along the main ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Radiance

By Shaena Lambert;

The taut artistry of Radiance makes for a highly provocative exploration of American guilt following the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In her first novel, Vancouver’s Shaena Lambert has woven together a searing narrative ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cobalt Blue

By Mary Borsky

Fans of Mary Borsky’s first short-story collection, Influence of the Moon, will be pleased to see that in two stories from her new collection, she revisits not only the characters of Irene Lychenko and her ... Read More »

May 7, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Divisadero

By Michael Ondaatje

Readers of Michael Ondaatje’s work will find two familiar voices competing for space on the pages of Divisadero. There is the Ondaatje of the earlier novels and poem sequences, the craftsman who found poetry and ... Read More »

April 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels