Rum River

In 1978 Raymond Fraser’s The Bannonbridge Musicians was nominated for a Governor General’s Award. This is the first time since then that the Maritime writer has broken his fictional silence in book form, though a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Silent Night: The Song from Heaven

By Linda Granfield, Nelly & Ernst Hofer, illus.

With its thick, flecked cream paper and rich gold artwork, Silent Night: The Song From Heaven is a very attractive, appealing book for Christmas giving. Both text and pictures reflect on the carol itself, rather ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Laterna Magika

By Ven Begamudré

Read Saskatchewan’s Ven Begamudré as an ethnic writer, and Laterna Magika repeats a familiar version of Canadian immigrants’ quandaries. Minorities, the eight stories suggest, dangle in an intellectual limbo between origin and end. While Begamudré’s ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Winter’s Tale

By Ian Wallace

Some books are like a ramble through the woods. There is a beginning, a middle, and a conclusion, but the plot is secondary to the atmosphere, and the means are more important than the end. ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Biscuits in the Cupboard

By Barbara Nichol, Philippe Beha, illus.

Writer Barbara Nichol has dug down deep to her inner puppy and come up with a whole batch of dog poems in which the cadence and content are delightfully right.Dish and Bowldish and bowlDo I ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

City of Forgetting

By Robert Majzels

“Je me souviens” proclaims the provincial licence plate, but the Montreal of Robert Majzels’ new novel seems haunted: half-remembered myths, dreams, and histories surface and collide in its melting springtime steets. And even as Majzel’s ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Westray: The Long Way Home

By Chris O’Neill and Ken Schwartz

Chris O’Neill and Ken Schwartz, the authors of Westray: The Long Way Home, are co-artistic directors of the theatre company Two Planks and a Passion, based in Canning, Nova Scotia.This play is part of an ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Reading Hebron

By Jason Sherman

The 1994 Hebron massacre in which a Jewish settler named Baruch Goldstein opened fire on a group of Muslims at prayer, murdering 29 of them before he himself was killed, prompted bitter debate in the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, 2nd Edition

By Eugene Benson and William Toye,eds.

Where are we in our literary history? It’s a question that comes up. People want to know. They see Canadian novels sprouting like never before, they notice Canadian writers finding foreign readerships, winning international prizes. ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

★ Symbolization and Its Discontents

By Dr. Jeanne Randolph, ed. Steve Reinke

Forget logic for a moment. Think about two words: “Technological Ethos.” Imagine what that might mean. Here’s a clue: It penetrates every contemporary theory going, from modernism to postmodernism to anti-postmodernism and the future which, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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