Edmonton – we know what it isn’t, so what is it? It’s not Sin City, Fun City, Naked City, or the Motor City; it isn’t a city of gold, angels, or light. There’s the oil ... Read More »
August 8, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Louise Penny received a great deal of praise from some very impressive sources for her first novel, Still Life. After reading Dead Cold, her second effort, I can safely say that much more praise is ... Read More »
July 31, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Five years into the War on Terror, it’s remarkable how few credible voices have questioned the operating assumptions of an enterprise that Pentagon generals ominously warn will carry on for the rest of our lives. ... Read More »
July 24, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
With influences as diverse and seemingly mismatched as Greek tragedy and mid-century Hollywood musicals, Karen Hines’s latest satire is a bizarrely compelling work that may not be for all readers. A followup to Hines’s first ... Read More »
July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In his latest work, playwright Drew Hayden Taylor adheres to the dictates of classic, riveting theatre by presenting stellar characters struggling with hardcore moral questions, while inviting the audience to continue the dialogue after the ... Read More »
July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Play Out the Match is one of the ballsiest debut collections in recent memory. Populated with barroom brawlers, strippers, dope-smokers, blue-collar workers, and bare-knuckle writers, these poems crackle with a masculine energy and a cocky ... Read More »
July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry
Anatomy of Keys is Victoria-based poet and teacher Steven Price’s first book. A poetic biography of Harry Houdini, its closest generic analogues in Canadian literature are Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and ... Read More »
July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry
Much of Leonard Cohen’s work (and most of his life) has been characterized by a vacillation between two poles. Cohen has always embraced the dynamic tension between the opposing forces of the holy and the ... Read More »
July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry
Despite a title that evokes emptiness, there is too much going on in Jean McNeil’s novel The Interpreter of Silences. The book is chock-full of drama, with barns burning, cars crashing, and drunken teenage girls ... Read More »
July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Everyone can relate to the teenage summer: hours spent in listless anticipation of something better. Agonizingly dull days rolling into even duller nights, where it seems as though adulthood will never come, sex is so ... Read More »
July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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