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A certain playfulness characterizes much of the new generation of Canadian short fiction, and Vivette Kady’s debut is no exception. These stories progress swiftly, in clipped passages linked by white space, so that one can ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Mapmaker’s Opera

By Béa Gonzalez

Diego Clemente, bastard son of a Spanish don, journeys across the globe in 1909, on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, to join American conservationist and naturalist Edward Nelson, who is documenting the birds of ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Busted Flush

By Brad Smith

Dock Bass is a straight-talking man’s man from upstate New York who likes carpentry and cold beer, but does not suffer fools. He gets himself fired from his job as a realtor. He abandons his ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Radiant City

By Lauren B. Davis

Lauren B. Davis’s much-praised first novel, A Stubborn Season, took place in Depression-era Toronto, in hard times made harder by alcoholism and mental illness. Her superb new novel is set in present-day Paris, where the ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Man in a Distant Field

By Theresa Kishkan

Declan O’Malley is a man on the run. O’Malley, the protagonist of Theresa Kishkan’s new novel, A Man in a Distant Field, is an Irish schoolmaster who flees his small ancestral family farm after the ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tenor of Love

By Mary di Michele

Like scratchy ancient recordings remastered and yellowed photographs restored, Mary di Michele’s Tenor of Love gives us an Enrico Caruso as bright and clear as prose can render him. Her Caruso comes alive as a ... Read More »

January 17, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Raymond and Hannah

By Stephen Marche

When asked in a recent interview about his legacy as a movie director, Woody Allen replied that his work, despite the praise and respect it has received, has had little direct influence on younger filmmakers. ... Read More »

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Full Speed Through the Morning Dark

By Matthew Tierney

Matthew Tierney’s Full Speed Through the Morning Dark is supposed to be a book of travel poems. In it we read stories of Tierney’s travels in Japan, China, Mongolia, Russia, and Ireland. The main problem ... Read More »

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Trout Point Lodge Cookbook: Creole Cuisine from New Orleans to Nova Scotia

By Daniel Abel, Charles Leary, and Vaughn Perret

This cookbook is based on recipes from the cooking school and restaurant at Trout Point Lodge in Nova Scotia. The authors’ goal is to use fresh, organic local ingredients while maintaining a connection with the ... Read More »

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

By Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer at The New Yorker, made a name for himself with his bestseller, The Tipping Point, which looked at how small trends can suddenly and unexpectedly morph into mass phenomena. Gladwell’s ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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