Reviews

Something to pet the cat about

In spite of their titles, Elisabeth Belliveau's collection of whimsical illustrations and text deals with desire, ...

By Naomi Louder

My Most Secret Desire

In spite of their titles, Elisabeth Belliveau's collection of whimsical illustrations and text deals with desire, ...

By Naomi Louder

Vandal Love

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance," said the playwright George Bernard ...

By Ami Sands Brodoff

The Bicycle Eater

Larry Tremblay's broad experience as a playwright is evident in The Bicycle Eater, a novel which breathes ...

By Kimberly Bourgeois

The Avatar Syndrome

That some combination of advanced technology and ancient spiritual practice becomes important in the future ...

By Harvey Shepherd

Sosi

Historical fiction, when it's good, breathes life into the past, blending imagination with fact to educate and ...

By Catherine Paquette

The Sound of All Flesh

Let's get straight to the gist of it: Barry Webster is a lexical virtuoso. Some of the short stories in The ...

By Faustus Salvador

Nasty, Short and Brutal

At first, most readers may not identify with the short stories in Daniel Nemiroff's debut collection. As the title ...

By Faustus Salvador

Go Figure

Judging from many current bestsellers, today's readers are hooked on fast-food, empty-calorie prose. So Go ...

By Marci Denesiuk

The Enemy Within

Nalini Warriar has already received praise as a promising emerging writer with a 2002 QWF Award for her story ...

By Andrea Belcham

Girl in a Red River Coat

This is the fictionalized memoir of Peate, a young girl in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grace neighbourhood near the ...

By Margaret Goldik