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Cover Me

By Mariko Tamaki

A striking deadpan humour sets the narrative tone in Toronto writer Mariko Tamaki’s fiction debut, Cover Me. Over the course of lunch with her wise-cracking father in a downtown Chinese restaurant, narrator Traci Yamoto describes ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What We All Want

By Michelle Berry

Michelle Berry’s two short-story collections are informed by a sharply mordant edge, their haunting characters anything but typical van-owning suburbanites. Her skilled first novel continues to dig over that terrain. What We All Want is ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Water Wings

By Kristen den Hartog

Kristen den Hartog’s dark, tender first novel reveals her as a sort of literary younger sister to Alice Munro, plumbing the landscape of small town southern Ontario to turn up stories of sexual discontent and ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Toscana Mia

By Umberto Menghi

In a perfect world, all cookbooks would be as enjoyable on the coffee table as they are on the kitchen counter. As it is, too many cookbooks are either weak on recipes but pretty to ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink