Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955–2010

Rudy Wiebe’s reputation is based on his novels and non-fiction, which have focused on Aboriginal themes and his Mennonite heritage. Though he is not widely known as a short story writer, a half-century’s worth of ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Beauty of Humanity Movement

By Camilla Gibb

Camilla Gibb’s previous novel, 2005’s Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated Sweetness in the Belly, was set mostly in Ethiopia. For her newest work, the author turns her attention to Vietnam. The novel’s central character, Old Man Hung, ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Noah’s Turn

By Ken Finkleman

Ken Finkleman doesn’t stray far from his roots as a television and film writer in his debut novel, the story of Noah Douglas, a TV writer going through a doozy of a mid-life crisis. Noah ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In Plain Sight

By Mike Knowles

Mike Knowles’s third novel, In Plain Sight, begins with anti-hero Wilson in a hospital bed, having been run over by a drunk driver. Wilson’s a grinder – a mob enforcer: cold, calculating, and ruthless, reminiscent ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dead Politician Society

By Robin Spano

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bury Your Dead

By Louise Penny

When I last reviewed a Louise Penny novel in these pages (2009’s The Brutal Telling), I wondered how much longer she could spin stories of murder in her chosen setting of the cloistered, tight-knit Eastern ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Am a Japanese Writer

By Dany Laferriere

Last year, Dany Laferrière won the prestigious Prix Médicis for his 14th novel, L’énigme du retour. This year sees the English-language publication of his 13th, the playful, perplexingly self-referential I Am a Japanese Writer. The ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

YOU comma Idiot

By Doug Harris

Given that this good-natured debut by film producer Doug Harris takes the unconventional form of a second-person narrative, the reader should not assume that its title is directed at him. Instead, it likely refers to ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Matter with Morris

By David Bergen

David Bergen signals a thematic and stylistic shift from his last two novels in the epigraph to his latest work. The quotation, from Saul Bellow’s idiosyncratic comic masterpiece Herzog, reads, “Oh, for a change of ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Case Against Owen Williams

By Allan Donaldson

War veteran John Maclean, the hapless title character of Allan Donaldson’s first novel, Maclean (nominated for the 2005 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize), makes a brief appearance in his latest. Maclean’s inclusion in the novel, ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955–2010

The Beauty of Humanity Movement

Noah’s Turn

In Plain Sight

Dead Politician Society

Bury Your Dead

I Am a Japanese Writer

YOU comma Idiot

The Matter with Morris

The Case Against Owen Williams

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