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Simple Master

By Alice Burdick

Don’t let the title fool you: this debut collection by Toronto poet Alice Burdick is anything but simple. The book is quartered into segments that seem to lend a menu-like efficiency to its consumption. The ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Helsinki Drift

By Douglas Burnet Smith

Anyone who has ever traveled, especially into a country with a vastly different culture, knows that an exploration of their native poetry is essential. The next best approach is to read a book like Douglas ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Hoyden

By Pamela Westoby

The age-old conflict between art and commerce (otherwise known as “Is it really selling my soul if I get to eat regularly?”) is given a contemporary and Canadian voice in Hoyden, the debut novel from ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Everyone in Silico

By Jim Munroe

The increasing power of corporations and advertisers in contemporary society has gotten a lot of press in recent years and has become fodder for fiction, especially science fiction. In this, his third novel, Toronto writer ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Back Flip

By Anne Denoon

Readers may not have given much thought to Toronto in the 1960s, but Anne Denoon has extracted a novel from an even more arcane branch of the city’s historical tree: the milieu of art and ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Real Life

By Sharon Butala

We’ve grown used to thinking of evil – if we think of it at all – as something monstrous, destruction you can’t wrap your mind around. Evil is the Holocaust, Sept. 11, war in Rwanda. ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short