Western Lights: Fourteen Distinctive British Columbians

Lisa Hobbs Birnie is a miniaturist of no small distinction, but Western Lights is a very uneven collection of portraits.This is to be expected when a writer collects 14 diverse personalities; nevertheless, the distance between ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Highwire Act: Power, Pragmatism, and the Harcourt Legacy

By Daniel Gawthrop

A first-rate novelist would have a hard time trumping the real-life high jinks of B.C. politics that play out nightly on the news. In the fall of 1995, NDP Premier Mike Harcourt resigned, unable to ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Time and Chance: The Political Memoirs of Canada’s First Woman Prime Minister

By Kim Campbell

Anyone expecting to be enthralled by Kim Campbell’s memoirs will be disappointed. The events related are too recent and familiar for immediate excitement. Moreover, Kim Campbell lacks an eye for the telling detail, a gift ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez

By Gregory Scofield

Native Canadiana is the second offering from B.C.’s Dorothy Livesay Award-winning poet Gregory Scofield. As a sophomore effort it’s a provocative but somewhat disappointing book, one that leaves me uneasy because I find it almost ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

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

Hope in the Desperate Hour

By David Adams Richards

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

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Western Lights: Fourteen Distinctive British Columbians

Highwire Act: Power, Pragmatism, and the Harcourt Legacy

Time and Chance: The Political Memoirs of Canada’s First Woman Prime Minister

Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez

Fugitive Pieces

Omnivores

Hope in the Desperate Hour

A Shark in the House

In Another Place, Not Here

Teaching Pigs to Sing

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