Robyn Sarah’s new collection of poetry is the work of a mature writer, confident in her craft and material. In finely nuanced poems of middle age – “Here I am…/ in the middle of my ... Read More »
February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Playwright Emil Sher is creating a new genre of drama with his radio morality-plays that explore ethical choices lurking behind the headlines of the daily news. He writes within the rich Canadian tradition of the ... Read More »
February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The last time Greg Hollingshead published a book it was The Roaring Girl, a collection of stories that went on to win the 1995 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Excavating the review I wrote of ... Read More »
February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
When we see a person in a painting from another time and place, that person can become almost present to us, stirring thoughts and memories in our own time and place. In The Museum Guard ... Read More »
February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
At first glance it looks like you could make a female buddy flick out of Joanna Goodman’s first novel Belle of the Bayou. You know the kind of movie: a sort of funny “Thelma and ... Read More »
February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In Gas Tank & Other Stories Dennis E. Bolen – author of several books including Stupid Crimes and Krekshuns – offers a glimpse of the world through the eyes of the beaten and destroyed, everyday ... Read More »
February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Keith Oatley, author of The Case of Emily V, has written a novel that can be approached on many levels. Inspired by George Eliot’s Middlemarch, it is a romance, a historical fiction, and a tale ... Read More »
February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Have you ever wondered how people will react when you die? Shanghai-born Montrealer Ying Chen takes this concept to its very limits in her third novel, Ingratitude. Twenty-five-year-old Yan Zi decides to take her own ... Read More »
February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
It’s rare that a reader is privileged with a protagonist as authentic as Daphne Baird. Tessa McWatt’s debut, Out of My Skin, makes us painfully aware of Daphne’s confusion as she searches for her identity ... Read More »
February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Boy, this Internet thing must be frustrating for marketing types. After more than five years in the white-hot glare of media attention – five years as the Next Big Thing – the goose still refuses ... Read More »
February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
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