Shakespeare’s Face: Is This the Face of Genius?

When her mother mentioned to journalist Stephanie Nolen that a neighbour had a one-of-a-kind portrait of William Shakespeare that might be worth a lot of money, little did the younger Nolen realize that her pursuit ... Read More »

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

Recurring Fictions

By Wendy McGrath

Recurring Fictions, Wendy McGrath’s first novel and second book after the poetry collection common place ecstasies, is a prose poem about growing up on the Prairies. The book opens as a meditation on the sound ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sweeter Life

By Tim Wynveen

The song remains the same in most rock and roll novels. Often thinly veiled memoirs, they’re crammed with a few anecdotes of life on the road but little of the human mechanics that make good ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Waterborne

By Joanne Soper-Cook

Like Frederico Garcia Lorca and playwrights Sean O’Casey and John Millington Synge, Newfoundland writer Joanne Soper-Cook instinctively understands the deep-rooted relationship between person and place. No matter where people find themselves, we are told, they ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Karnival

By Michael Mortensen

From its evocative opening sentences to its startling yet inevitable finale, Karnival, the debut novel from American expatriate and long-time Toronto resident Michael Mortensen, weaves a compelling spell. Mortensen draws on his 15 years of ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Dutch Wife

By Eric McCormack

From the novel’s first image – a stall-keeper idly winding an endless parasite out of his belly – this is vintage Eric McCormack Gothic. That horrifying “Guinea worm,” along with other curious phrases such as ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Rogues’ Wedding

By Terry Griggs

Anyone who thinks writing is not a visual art should take a peek at Terry Griggs’ second novel, Rogues’ Wedding. Set in Ontario in 1898, the story follows Grif Smolders as he flees northward from ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shaken by Physics

By John MacKenzie

In his second collection of poetry, Shaken by Physics, East Coast writer John MacKenzie employs the language of science, religion, philosophy, and grammar to shake up our understanding of the landscapes we occupy and that ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Mike’s World: The Life of Mike Myers

By Martin Knelman

Mike Myers has achieved massive success with his Austin Powers and Wayne’s World franchises, and in this quickie biography Martin Knelman feels compelled to pump up the significance of his already famous subject. How else ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

By Michael Ondaatje

Thought about film editing lately? As the guy who leaves the cuttings on the cutting room floor, Walter Murch has given the final shape to a host of seminal American movies – including The Conversation, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

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