★ Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate

Four months of eyeballing slides at 8:30 a.m. in “Introduction to Visual Perception” changed everything. The instructor was a draft dodger with impossible sideburns, and he showed us how to read the stories inside pictures. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ Beatrice Chancy

By George Elliott Clarke

Beatrice Chancy defies categorization. On the surface, it’s an adaptation of a well-known murder story from 16th-century Rome. In 1598, a young woman named Beatrice Cenci killed her father after he raped her. Subsequently, her ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Kaddish for My Father

By Libby Scheier

Libby Scheier’s Kaddish for My Father brings together new and selected material from earlier collections. The first half of the volume includes new poetry and prose commemorating Scheier’s father, who died in 1997, and exploring ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The City of Yes

By Peter Oliva

Peter Oliva’s second novel, The City of Yes, is not so much one story as it is several individual tales, each threading seamlessly through the others in a meditation on storytelling itself. Set mainly in ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fits Like a Rubber Dress

By Roxane Ward

Roxane Ward’s debut novel has the trappings of a provocative story – there’s the teasing title and tastefully erotic cover – but the reality of this tale of one woman’s foray into Toronto’s underground is ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Jane

By Judy MacDonald

Judy MacDonald is such a flawless mimic of teenaged voices that this novel feels channelled, as if a group of ghostly high school students had started fooling around with a tape recorder in someone’s bedroom, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Driven

By Betsy Struthers

In her latest book of poems, poet and mystery novelist Betsy Struthers is standing midstream, mid-career, mid-life, looking at both shores. These are poems of positioning: where to stand in relation, how to carry what ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

On the Threshold: Writing Toward 2000

By The Foxglove Collective, eds.

Now they tell me. For the last few years, visionaries have been caballing secretly and brewing recipes for the definitive millennium anthology. “Guaranteed fundable!” they all shrieked, and “Think of the market! Once in a ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium

By Heidi Harms, Joan Thomas, eds.

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The War at Home: An Intimate Portrait of Canada’s Poor

By Pat Capponi

Canadians like to brag about how the United Nations consistently rates Canada as the best place in the world to live. It’s selective memory: the U.N. also routinely chastises Canada for its treatment of aboriginal ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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