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The Red Power Murders

By Thomas King

With The Red Power Murders, Thomas King (aka Hartley Goodweather) returns with a new DreadfulWater mystery. Having abandoned the façade of pseudonymity that accompanied DreadfulWater Shows Up, the first novel featuring Cherokee freelance investigator Thumps ... Read More »

April 24, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tent

By Margaret Atwood

Some of the earliest examples of women’s writing can be found in Renaissance “miscellanies,” or notebooks in which women copied, composed, and emended poems and brief bits of fiction for their own pleasure and edification. ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Sleep of Four Cities

By Jen Currin

The Sleep of Four Cities is the first poetry collection from Jen Currin, an expat American and now Vancouver resident. The poems show the signs of much hard work. They are full of startling images, ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

The Clichéist

By Amanda Lamarche

The title of B.C. poet Amanda Lamarche’s debut collection is an open invitation to critics. Fortunately, there are few clichés of the glaring variety to be found here.If there is a too-standard element to Lamarche’s ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Gutted

By Evie Christie

While it’s not yet clear whether confession is, in fact, good for the soul (the eschatological jury is still out), one thing is clear: the confessional mode has resulted in a lot of bad poetry. ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

How Happy to Be

By Katrina Onstad

How Happy to Be is set in Toronto and revolves around Maxine, a thirtysomething entertainment journalist labouring at the fictional neo-con newspaper The Daily. She doesn’t find her job, or her life, particularly satisfying, and ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels