May 2007
Suddenly the Minotaur, winner of the 2003 Prix Anne-Hébert in its original French-language edition, is an ...
May 2007
In Lullabies for Little Criminals, debut novelist Heather O'Neill tells the story of Baby, a motherless ...
May 2007
The First Thing We Do vividly evokes the Montreal of late 1991. Linguistic tensions are running high, and ...
May 2007
Dead Cold is the sequel to Penny's successful debut novel, Still Life. She has created a complex and ...
May 2007
Optique lends credence to Susan Sontag's declaration that "to collect photographs is to collect the world." ...
May 2007
Reading the blurb on the back cover of a novel can be a tricky affair. Any mention of torture, Honduras, and ...
October 2006
The Ratcatcher opens brilliantly, with a fascinating idea, a sensually evoked setting, and striking ...
October 2006
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a little voice tells me that muckraker David Bernans - a "political gadfly," ...
October 2006
When a character dreams in fiction, readers are supposed to perk up and pay attention.
Whether the dream ...
October 2006
The central conceit of the book is moles: brown ones, white ones, raised and stretched, sprouting, mottled or ...
October 2006
That well-known line about God being in the details has never quite rung true to me. Would God really ...
October 2006
"The truth. That is your greatest weapon. Just be careful how you use it."
Universal truth, universal warning. ...