Quill and Quire

By Nancy Huston

Nancy Huston’s most recent English-language novel, an intriguing counterpoint of musical and religious imagery, tells the story of a successful middle-aged novelist named Nadia and her efforts to exorcise the trauma of her disturbing family ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Richard Wagamese

In his second novel, Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese, a National Newspaper Award-winning journalist before his turn to fiction, creates a metaphor for Canada’s treatment of its aboriginal inhabitants. A Quality of Light offers a complicated ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Ray Robertson

As its title suggests, Toronto writer Ray Robertson’s first novel, Home Movies, could be read as an attempt to forge a new independent Canadian film sub-genre: urban cowboy loser noir. It fails even as it ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels