Petrified Campus: The Crisis in Canada’s Universities

By David Bercuson, Robert Bothwell, J.L. Granatstein

Anyone who’s been on a university campus in the last 10 years will get a powerful sense of déjà vu reading Petrified Campus. The authors, a triumvirate of history professors, have compiled an impressive list ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Salamander

By Thomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton’s first novel, Icefields, came via NeWest Press’s Nunatak Fiction. The imprint’s slim books – new writing by new writers from the West – lack the flash and budget of ones launched like smooth-skinned ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Spirits in the Wires

By Charles de Lint

Ottawa writer Charles de Lint writes mythic fiction, bringing magical elements into the world we know and taking our world into fantastic realms – the borderlands, the places in between, the otherworlds. In his Newford ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Magician’s Wife

By Brian Moore

You would never describe Brian Moore as a flashy writer, and this is a good thing. His style is reserved and observant, his themes large and universal, but exquisitely localized: this is someone who pulls ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Henderson’s Spear

By Ronald Wright

Ronald Wright was New Faced by Knopf Canada in 1997 with his first novel, A Scientific Romance, a dark and witty time-travelling indictment of everybody. Wright’s face was not exactly new: he was kissing 50 ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Body’s Place

By Elise Turcotte,Sheila Fischman, trans.

Montreal novelist Elise Turcotte tells a chilling summer story about teenagers in The Body’s Place. School is out and 15-year-old Hélène, her slightly younger sister Lisa, and their 5-year-old brother have to find things to ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Literary History of Alberta, Volume Two: From the End of the War to the End of the Century

By George Melnyk

The Literary History of Alberta, Volume Two offers an authoritative and balanced history of the Alberta literary and publishing world. Calgary writer and historian George Melnyk chronicles the recent past with a scholar’s caution, as ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture

By Robert Fulford

What are stories for? For inspiring and instructing, for explaining and illuminating the world. With stories we argue, entertain, remember, and learn how to live our lives. “The stories people tell have a way of ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Need

By Robert Thomson

The best short stories (think of those by Alice Munro, James Joyce, and Raymond Carver) resonate with the reader long after the covers are closed, and yield more on each subsequent reading. Most short stories ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Hot & Bothered 2: Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire

By Karen X. Tulchinsky, ed.

Karen X. Tulchinsky and James C. Johnstone, co-editors of the Queer View Mirror 1 and 2 anthologies, each went on to produce successful books about gay and lesbian desire in 1998: Hot & Bothered (for ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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Petrified Campus: The Crisis in Canada’s Universities

★ Salamander

Spirits in the Wires

The Magician’s Wife

Henderson’s Spear

The Body’s Place

The Literary History of Alberta, Volume Two: From the End of the War to the End of the Century

The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture

Need

Hot & Bothered 2: Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire

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