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BOOK REVIEWS

Midnight Robber

By Nalo Hopkinson

Midnight Robber, the second book by Toronto speculative fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson, begins on Toussaint, a planet peopled by the descendants of Caribbean immigrants from Earth. The Midnight Robber is young Tan-tan’s favourite Carnival character, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Film Society

By Gilaine Mitchell

Thousands of women regularly haul themselves off to small book club meetings; some, like the ones in Film Society, opt for video-watching gatherings. This is a sort of cultural phenomenon. It’s also a resource: so ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Accidental Indies

By Robert Finley

The Accidental Indies, by Robert Finley, bears reading at least twice, although in description it sounds very straightforward. It is about Christopher Columbus and his first voyage toward what we now call the Western Hemisphere. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Getting Lucky

By Matt Cohen

Critical Etiquette Rule # 96: Ignore the book’s author. Get rid of him.We became intimate with Matt Cohen last fall when he won the Governor General’s Award for Elizabeth and After. We saw him ridicule ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Media Therapy

By Larry Gaudet

We reviewers regularly exceed our word counts by begging Canadian fiction writers to up the literary ante. Enough already with the rural incest weepers, the featherweight urban satires, the well-worn immigration stories, we rail. Where ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels