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By Marianne Ackerman

The coming of age novel is traditionally a story of adolescence, where a first experience of love, sex, freedom, or “the other” is the gateway to maturity. In later life, the absence or departure of ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Devil Out There

By Julie Keith

The connections between the linked stories of Julie Keith’s assured new collection at first seem tenuous, distracting even. Instead of responding to each tale on its own terms, we find ourselves, like small-town gossips, looking ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Forty Words for Sorrow

By Giles Blunt

With Forty Words for Sorrow, a portrait of a string of murders in small-town northern Ontario, author Giles Blunt has delivered something Canadian crime writers could hitherto never quite get right: a uniquely Canuck template ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Restlessness

By Aritha van Herk

As a writer, Aritha van Herk is like an ideal lover: constant and naughty. While she passionately rejects plot and its romance, and blends the roles of writer and reader, van Herk’s lascivious imagination tries ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels