Poet and short story writer Richard Scarsbrook has parlayed a 1999 short story into a first novel with mixed results. We follow the adventures of Dak Sifter in discrete vignettes, from Grade 7 to first ... Read More »
November 25, 2003
In The Night Spies, Gabi, her cousin Max, and her mother are forced into hiding in 1944 by increasingly murderous Nazi activity in their native Czechoslovakia. Mr. Kos, a sympathetic former employee, gives the family ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
Gorgeous endpapers adorned with vibrant dinosaurs invite readers to plunge into The Dinosaur Atlas. Tracing the development of dinosaurs from the late Triassic to the late Cretaceous era, this dense compendium successfully conveys a lot ... Read More »
November 25, 2003
“We are all lost,” a preacher shouts from a car radio at a son and mother in the title story of Choosing His Coffin, a collection of 20 of Austin Clarke’s best short stories. The ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
The flood of books about the First World War never seems to end. In the past few years, we’ve had Niall Ferguson’s The Pity of War, John Keegan’s The First World War and of course, ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
If you write an unflinchingly human portrait of a murderer, are you glamorizing his crimes? That’s the question Lynn Crosbie has posed in four previous poetry collections (most notoriously with her piece of true-crime poetry, ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry
What is the answer?” No answer came. She laughed and said, “In that case what is the question?” (Gertrude Stein) In her debut poetry collection, Question & Answer, Alison Pick takes up Gertrude Stein’s challenge, ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry
Although not strictly in the tradition of the language poets of the 1970s, Quebecoise poet Nicole Brossard’s work has always been marked by serious language play and Museum of Bone and Water, in an exquisite ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry
An innocuous, unarmed United States with health care – this is what Canada is to many. However, according to Michael Adams’ second book, Fire and Ice (much less intriguingly titled than his first, Sex in ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Though ostensibly a memoir of the years he lived and worked at Rochdale College, the now legendary student residence and “free university” that was loosely affiliated with the University of Toronto, Ralph Osborne’s From Someplace ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
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