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'Boomsday' Bustnew
Buckley can be really funny, and there are a few laugh-out-loud moments here, but he has a habit of stating the obvious.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
06-29-2007 |
Fiction
'Brother Dumb': Tender, Reflective, Subtlenew
Gilbert's new book defies expectations.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
06-25-2007 |
Fiction
Daddy's Girlsnew
You might pick up this book expecting some of Canada's best-known female writers to deliver accounts of trauma and brutalization at the hands of their fathers -- forget about it; these dads are for the most part inspiring or benign.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
05-18-2007 |
Nonfiction
Guns: The New Global Warmingnew
With North America still reeling from the Virginia Tech shootings, what I want to know is why everybody assumes it's impossible to separate the Yanks from their guns.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
04-30-2007 |
Commentary
The NOW Commuter Challengenew
Bike, car or public transit -- which way is really the better way? Three staffers take the challenge and find out.
NOW Magazine |
Stephen Chester, Susan G. Cole and Evan Davies |
04-13-2007 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
Stealing Beautynew
Gowdy takes empathy to the max in her deeply unsettling new novel by taking us inside the head of a developing pedophile.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
03-05-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Barbara Gowdy, Helpless
'Big' Funnew
This story just rocks -- it's part potboiler, part love story and all heart.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
02-23-2007 |
Fiction
Sharp Narrativenew
Miller follows up his debut, The Featherbed, with another compelling tale about Jewish immigrant life in Toronto in the 30s and 40s, this time with a nifty political twist.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
02-09-2007 |
Fiction
Cruel Slaverynew
The Book of Negroes has all the elements of good historical fiction: an epic story, detail that can only come from deep research, and astute insights into human frailty.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
01-26-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
Far-Out Radicalsnew
Though we could hardly call him a literary heavyweight, Maillard is a chronicler in the true sene of the word.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
01-12-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Keith Maillard, Looking Good
Moral Victorynew
There isn't another writer on the planet who can be so tough and so tender at the same time.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
10-06-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder
One Wickedly Witty Authornew
One half of How Happy To Be is a toxic-toned critique of the public's insatiable desire for insider gossip,while the other tracks a child brought up by an emotionally absent father.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
09-22-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: How Happy To Be, Katrina Onstad
Fearless Particlesnew
Multi-strand narratives have to connect in the end, and despite his skilful, intriguing set-up, Cole's Particles fails to cohere into a whole.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
09-15-2006 |
Fiction
Holocaust Hauntsnew
By piecing together her past in drawings and words, Eisenstein begins to understand how being a child of Holocaust survivors has made her the person she is.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
05-18-2006 |
Nonfiction
Back in Timenew
Lesbiana's best novelist tries a major experiment in The Night Watch -- a backwards narrative.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
04-06-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Sarah Waters, The Night Watch
