★ Who Gets in: What’s Wrong with Canada’s Immigration Program – and How to Fix It

In Who Gets In Daniel Stoffman takes a big bite out of that most sacred of all Canadian cows – our immigration program. Deftly written and studiously substantiated, this book offers much to chew on, ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Facing Ali: The Opposition Weighs in

By Stephen Brunt

History is written by the winners. It’s one of the truisms of war, commerce, and sports. But what is made clear in Globe and Mail sportswriter Stephen Brunt’s latest book, Facing Ali, is that the ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Salt Fish Girl

By Larissa Lai

Larissa Lai’s second novel, Salt Fish Girl, stinks. Or rather it’s filled with stink, so much so that odours are described on nearly every page, ranging from the salty tang of the title character to ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Teaching Mr. Cutler

By Robert Currie

Robert Currie’s first novel, Teaching Mr. Cutler, draws on the author’s 40 years of teaching experience to tell the story of Brad Cutler, a nervous naif in his first year in front of a class ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tent of Blue

By Rachael Preston

Tent of Blue is an ambitious debut novel from Hamilton writer Rachael Preston. The primary narrative strand follows 15-year-old Anton in Vancouver in 1952. His mother, Yvonne, a dance instructor, rules with a merciless lack ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Necessary Betrayals

By Guillaume Vigneault, Susan Ouriou, trans.

Like heroes in the best quest stories – Don Quixote, Bilbo Baggins, and Huck Finn, for example – Jack Dubois, the narrator of Guillaume Vigneault’s Necessary Betrayals, doesn’t know what he’s getting into when he ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Understanding

By Jane Barker Wright

The “understanding” of the title is presumably that which exists between Solly and Isobel Whitechapel, the couple at the centre of this novel: he’ll continue to womanize, she’ll continue having babies. This arrangement has been ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wound Ballistics

By Steven Manners

Steven Manners’ new book of short fiction has little relation to most of CanLit’s current isms, from postmodernism and historicism to transculturalism. The stories read like darker updates of vintage New Yorker fiction, offering opaque, ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Rhinestone Button

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Gail Anderson-Dargatz writes lovely novels about unlovely people: unlovely people who grow beautiful under her compassionate, masterful, sly authorial gaze. After two books with unforgettable heroines, Beth Weeks of The Cure for Death by Lightning ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Womanizer: A Man of His Time

By Rick Salutin

Columnist and playwright Rick Salutin’s latest novel is a delicately balanced cautionary tale that takes a serious look at society’s ever-changing attitudes to sexuality. It’s both lively and witty, but not as light as it ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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★ Who Gets in: What’s Wrong with Canada’s Immigration Program – and How to Fix It

Facing Ali: The Opposition Weighs in

Salt Fish Girl

Teaching Mr. Cutler

Tent of Blue

Necessary Betrayals

The Understanding

Wound Ballistics

A Rhinestone Button

The Womanizer: A Man of His Time

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