Lost Geography

Just when the appropriation of voice issue has finally sputtered out, along comes another American novelist who dares to don the toque and parka of imagination and make like a Canadian. But Charlotte Bacon acquits ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nine Bells for a Man

By Peter Unwin

Stephen Crane’s short story “The Open Boat” and Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey both resonate in Peter Unwin’s captivating debut novel, Nine Bells for a Man. Unwin takes the cold facts of ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pray for Us Sinners

By Patrick Taylor

When – or if – this no-nonsense techno-thriller is made into a movie, it will feature action and more action: uniformed men pouring out of military vans; gunfire; sirens; casualties of war; pin-drop suspense sequences ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Defying Gravity

By Jennifer Wynne Webber

With the media-saturated popularity of the works of Deepak Chopra and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, “spirituality” became the buzzword of the 1990s, and the trendiest Hollywood celebrities worshipped at the feet of ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Forests of the Heart

By Charles de Lint

Ottawa writer Charles de Lint is one of Canada’s best-kept literary secrets, one of our most accomplished writers despite an undeserved lack of mainstream recognition. His work defies easy categorization: it’s marketed as fantasy, but ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Storied Streets: Montreal in the Literary Imagination

By Bryan Demchinsky and Elaine Kalman Naves

In April, at Montreal’s second annual Blue Metropolis literary festival, writers from Scotland, Trinidad, and Toronto tossed around variations on a theme: can one live imaginatively in one’s homeplace before it has been represented in ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Tom Thomson’s Shack

By Harold Rhenisch

Harold Rhenisch’s Tom Thomson’s Shack is filled with arresting images. A poet with 11 previous books to his credit – including the recent novel Carnival – Rhenisch has turned his hand this time to short ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Memory of Elsewhere

By Rona Murray

Six and a half years ago a man named Mr. Peacock blacked out at the wheel of his car and smashed into Rona Murray, a Vancouver Island poet and teacher, while she was driving to ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Genius of Place: Writing About British Columbia

By David Stouck and Myler Wilkinson, eds.

Pack 200 years into 400 pages and much will be missed. David Stouck and Myler Wilkinson have strung together a glut of non-fiction writers – explorers, artists, ecologists – to reveal a big truth about ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)

By Veronica Strong-Boag and Carole Gerson

Pauline Johnson, of both Mohawk and Euro-Canadian ancestry, was a musical performer, champion of first nations’ rights, and an independent, self-supporting woman as well as a writer. For decades after her death in 1913, she ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Lost Geography

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Defying Gravity

★ Forests of the Heart

Storied Streets: Montreal in the Literary Imagination

Tom Thomson’s Shack

Memory of Elsewhere

Genius of Place: Writing About British Columbia

Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)

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