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Raspberry House Blues

By Linda Holeman

Overheard conversation between two mothers of teenage girls:“How’s your daughter?”“She’s fifteen.”Rueful smile and wordless look of deep sympathy.The relationship between adolescent girls and their mothers seems to be a vexed affair and is thus rich ... Read More »

February 17, 2004

Bathory

By Moynan King

Elizabeth Bathory, a cult favourite in the world of vampire films, was a 17th-century Hungarian countess, infamous for her obsession with virgin blood. In Bathory, Toronto playwright Moynan King reimagines the last years of Bathory’s ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

That Summer

By David French

David French is one of Canada’s most acclaimed playwrights and an accomplished explorer of the power of memory. Since 1972, generations of his fictional Mercer family, transplanted from Coley’s Point in Newfoundland to Toronto, have ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Forest Burning

By Carole Giangrande

Carole Giangrande’s rich and ambitious new novel, A Forest Burning, is a story of generations of loss, soul baring, and secrets. The central story, which unfolds carefully, if a little pedantically, is much more compelling ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels