Reviews

From the Japanese: A Western Journalist in the Empire of the Resigned

During the 1990s, journalist Caroline Bergman and her diplomat husband spent five years living in Japan. She wandered widely through what she terms “the Empire of the resigned,” and her first book, From the Japanese, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

Letters to Harvelyn: From Japanese Pow Camps: A Father’s Letters to His Young Daughter During World War Ii

By Harvelyn Baird McInnis, ed.

The Canadian army suffered its first defeat of the Second World War at Hong Kong in December 1941, an event that was overshadowed by the debacle at Dieppe nine months later. The Nazis killed more ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Peacekeeper’s Teahouse

By Larry Gaudet

Larry Gaudet’s second novel is part cultural-political commentary, part academic love story. The Peacekeeper’s Teahouse is told by Elliot MacDonald, a retired UN constitutional negotiator. After years of service as a frontline spin-doctor, sanitizing coups ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Case of Lena S.

By David Bergen

Long before The Catcher in the Rye had been discovered by the mainstream, I got caught passing J.D. Salinger’s classic of adolescent angst to a friend in Grade 10 math class. Our twentysomething teacher confiscated ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Book of Ifs and Buts

By Rabindranath Maharaj

Rabindranath Maharaj has already published three well-received books of fiction, including The Interloper, a story collection nominated for the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. But while this collection of eight stories and a novella ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Tiger Dreams

By Almeda Glenn Miller

Readers should be forgiven if, weeks after finishing Tiger Dreams, they mistakenly remember it as a film rather than a novel. First-time novelist Almeda Glenn Miller favours the sweep of the big screen, moving from ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ All the Men Are Sleeping

By D.R. MacDonald

D.R. MacDonald is a writer of enormous talent, skill, and, it seems, patience. Like Alistair MacLeod, he hails from Cape Breton, the setting of most of his stories. Also like MacLeod, who at 66 has ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Ascent of Eli Israel

By Jon Papernick

Jon Papernick’s first collection of stories, The Ascent of Eli Israel, is a subtle, chilling, and wistful “celebration” of the war-torn devastation and spiritual stoicism that afflicts modern-day Israel. These stories are raw, yet uncannily ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Mycological Studies

By Jay Millar

Like the avant-garde musician and writer John Cage, Toronto poet and small-press publisher Jay Millar finds mushrooms fascinating (hence his title, Mycological Studies). Mushrooms offer Millar a tempting metaphor for language and the writing process. ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Ending with Music

By Maurice Mierau

The cover of Ending with Music pays tribute to the under-appreciated American poet John Berryman, and the poems contained here reflect some of Berryman’s syntactical inventiveness as well as revealing author Maurice Mierau’s preoccupation with ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

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