★ Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

The title of Alice Munro’s new collection seems aggressive and awkward at first, but it quickly pulls the reader into the “game” Munro is playing in these nine stories. The game, as explained in the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Changing the Pattern: The Story of Emily Stowe

By Sydell Waxman,Linda Potts, illus.

Emily Stowe was a pioneer in the feminist movement – one of the first women in Ontario to attend medical school, one of the first to demand the right to vote. Her story is certainly ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ For Orchestra and Solo Poet

By Émile Martel, D.G. Jones, trans.

While it is true that Pour Orchestre et Poète Seul could never have been written by an English language poet, it is equally true that D.G. Jones’ translation can be easily read as an English ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Heat Wave

By Michel Marc Bouchard, Bill Glassco, trans.

Michel Marc Bouchard is one of the most innovative, daring, and imaginative of Quebec playwrights, having written such complexly psychological – and complexly theatrical – works as Lilies and The Tale of Teeka. So you’ll ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Doctor’s House

By Cary Fagan

Toronto writer Cary Fagan has called his new book, The Doctor’s House, “a miniature novel.” At 76 pages it is certainly miniature in its physical dimensions, although Fagan manages more in the small confines of ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Intern

By David Laing Dawson

The Intern, a new novel by Hamilton, Ontario author David Laing Dawson (and the last of Macmillan’s now defunct fiction line), tells the story of the internship year at a Toronto hospital in the late ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crosstown

By Richard Scrimger

The new face of fiction is bleary, drunk, and male. The spring season has blessed Canada with not one, but three novels about the travails of bloated white guys residing in a mean Toronto. Finally, ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Tamarind Mem

By Anita Rau Badami

Vancouver writer Anita Rau Badami weaves a tale of bittersweet nostalgia in her first novel, imbuing her descriptions of Indian domestic life with achingly palpable details as she explores all the small ceremonies that make ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stories from the Woman from Away

By Tessie Gillis

Stories from the Woman from Away is a pull-no-punches look at life on Cape Breton Island in the recent past. The eponymous heroine is Mary, an American married to Jim Douglas of the “Glen,” where ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Time I Saw Jane

By Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger’s new novel, The Last Time I Saw Jane, is the story of a woman’s journey of self-discovery, reconciling past with present, and the inability we have connecting with others.Ostensibly, the novel chronicles the ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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★ Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

Changing the Pattern: The Story of Emily Stowe

★ For Orchestra and Solo Poet

Heat Wave

The Doctor’s House

The Intern

Crosstown

★ Tamarind Mem

Stories from the Woman from Away

The Last Time I Saw Jane

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