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The Betrayer

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

The Animal Sciences

By Ron Hotz

Ron Hotz distinguishes his first novel, The Animal Sciences, from other Canadian stories of dysfunctional characters and difficult loves by presenting it as a kind of scientific case study rather than as a deeply felt ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Disarmament

By John Terpstra

The bleak, hopeful town of Hamilton, Ontario – with its steel mills and slowly resurgent parklands – finds an apt poet laureate in John Terpstra. His seventh collection, Disarmament, focuses mainly on the city’s landscapes ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Fiction for Lovers: Freshly Cut Tales of Flesh, Fear, Larvae and Love

By Tony Burgess

“Contaminated but beautiful in the television light” is how the narrator of “Bug Day,” the penultimate story in Tony Burgess’s fourth book, describes the face of his lover. He could just as easily be describing ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Money Players: How Hockey’s Greatest Stars Beat the Nhl at Its Own Game

By Bruce Dowbiggin

The Calgary-based sportswriter Bruce Dowbiggin is pushing hard to become Canada’s next great chronicler of our national pastime. Dowbiggin, a frequent hockey commentator on radio and television and a writer for the Calgary Herald, has ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

One Large Coffin to Go: A Polly Deacon Murder Mystery

By H. Mel Malton

This is the fourth in Malton’s series of cosy mysteries featuring an Ontario puppet-maker eking out a precarious lifestyle in the cottage-country bush somewhere north of Toronto. The approaching winter season finds Polly Deacon three ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Opium Lady

By Joanne Soper-Cook

Imagine moving into a house and finding an old family photo album tucked deep in the corner of a dusty bedroom closet, flipping through the photos, and inventing intricate stories for the strangers in the ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Ways of the Wilderness: A Personal Journey Through Religion and Literature

By Anne McPherson

Ways of the Wilderness, the new book from Ontario writer and art curator Anne McPherson, is rooted in McPherson’s academic work some 40 years ago. Inspired by H.A. Williams’ The True Wilderness, McPherson realized that ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Parlance

By Suzanne Zelazo

Though Parlance is her first book-length publication of poetry, Toronto poet Suzanne Zelazo’s name is likely familiar to many through her role as editor of the Queen Street Quarterly. This literary magazine has a reputation ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Women in a World at War: Seven Dispatches from the Front

By Madeleine Gagnon, Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, trans.

Women in a World at War, by Quebec writer Madeleine Gagnon, is an extraordinary work. Less investigative journalism than an extended effort to view the war-torn world through a poet’s gaze, the book crosses borders ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History

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