Knucklehead

Knucklehead, W. Mark Giles’ first collection of short fiction, is an eclectic mix of stories and experimental pieces. The title and cover art are misleading, implying yet another collection of gritty urban tales of boozers ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Dark Side: The Personal Price of a Political Life

By Steve Paikin

The Dark Side should be a more interesting book than it is. The subject matter is inherently engaging: failed governments and failed marriages, backroom betrayals and public humiliation – all the worst things about living ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

River of the Brokenhearted

By David Adams Richards

And you thought the Kennedys had it bad with a couple of assassinations and a plane crash. The latest saga by Giller Prize-winner David Adams Richards centres on a family so cursed and shoved about ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Succession

By Art Norris

Succession is another tale of the strains and glories of homecoming, told here through a sequence of linked stories connected to Al, a journeyman musician who, after years of playing bass in Vancouver bar bands, ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Old Scores: A Barry Gilbert Mystery

By Scott Mackay

Old Scores is the third episode of the contemporary Toronto-based police procedural series featuring Detective Barry Gilbert. When the body of sleazy drug-addicted music agent and fixer Glen Boyd is found by a collection agent ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival

By Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence, eds.

Strong Women Stories picks up where Kim Anderson’s last book left off. In A Recognition of Being, the Cree/Metis social- and health-policy analyst detailed the ways in which native women have been stereotyped and stripped ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Shrimpy and Paul and Friends

By Marc Bell

For many years prolific Canadian underground cartoonist Marc Bell’s playful, circuitous “Shrimpy and Paul” comics have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and zines – venues that never did justice to the labyrinthine structure and lush density ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Speaking Cure

By David Homel

Shot through with gallows humour and a brand of wartime slapstick, David Homel’s The Speaking Cure communicates a subtle and powerful anti-censorship message while blurring already shifty lines between right and wrong, victim and oppressor. ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Catch & Release: Trout Fishing and the Meaning of Life

By Mark Kingwell

Those familiar with University of Toronto philosopher, critic, and media-wunderkind Mark Kingwell’s work may find the subject of his latest book, trout fishing, somewhat unlikely. Or not. Catch & Release is ostensibly a memoir dealing ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

The Betrayer

By Michael Hennessey

Mention orphans and Prince Edward Island, and Anne Shirley immediately springs to mind. As Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s creation has become an island industry. Mickey Casey – the nasty, drunken, murderous narrator ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Knucklehead

The Dark Side: The Personal Price of a Political Life

River of the Brokenhearted

Succession

Old Scores: A Barry Gilbert Mystery

Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival

Shrimpy and Paul and Friends

The Speaking Cure

Catch & Release: Trout Fishing and the Meaning of Life

The Betrayer

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