The Uncharted Heart

In the early part of the 20th century, prospectors rushed to Northen Ontario’s Porcupine region in hopes of cashing in on the huge banks of gold, copper, and zinc that lay under the thick blanket ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction

By Michael Rowe, ed.

This ground-breaking X-rated collection of 21 short stories, edited by Michael Rowe, attempts to fill a vacancy in the genre of “gay horror,” a lonely literary realm that has thus far hosted only two notable ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Calendar Boy

By Andy Quan

Andy Quan’s preferred style in Calendar Boy, his debut collection of short stories, is the confessional. It’s a voice that is especially popular in queer fiction, in part because many queer writers are interested in ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Pool Hopping and Other Stories

By Anne Fleming

Pool Hopping is a first collection of short stories by Vancouver writer Anne Fleming. Most of the stories are set in Toronto (where Fleming spent her youth), and reflect an atmosphere in which every act ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Arctic Stories

By Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, Vladyana Langer Krykorka, illus.

Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Vladyana Langer Krykorka, collaborators on A Promise Is a Promise, have created another colourful mixture of Northern legend and historical fact. Arctic Stories is based on Kusugak’s childhood experiences in the ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

The Ark in the Garden and Other Fables for Our Times

By Alberto Manguel, ed.

In the same vein as the hugely popular Politically Correct Bedtime Stories for Adults comes a Canadian version. The Ark in the Garden and Other Fables for Our Times, collected by anthologist Alberto Manguel, is ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Preferred Lies: A Collection of Short Stories

By Wayne Curtis

The 13 stories in Wayne Curtis’s collection Preferred Lies are mainly set in the Maritimes, and deal with ordinary people in ordinary situations. Loneliness is one of the dominant themes. In “Winter’s Night,” an old ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Flesh and Blood

By Michael Crummey

Poet Michael Crummey’s first collection of short stories, Flesh and Blood, is a mixture of the magical and the mundane, the extraordinary and the everyday. Crummey casts his storytelling net into the depths of small-town ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Worlds Within Her

By Neil Bissoondath

In The Worlds Within Her Neil Bissoondath picks up where he left off in his previous fiction – chronicling the small, crucial emotional turning points in ordinary lives. When we first meet Bissoondath’s protagonist Yasmin, ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Splitting up: Divorce, Culture, and the Search for a Real Life

By Larry Frolick

In a world of perpetual change the traditional concept of marriage – constancy, fidelity, familiarity – is an institution completely at odds with the times we live in.While we still crave the intimacy of stable ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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