| Book Review Owning the Place
by Mark Abley
Karen Connelly has an enviable, somewhat disquieting ability to possess the spirit of a place. Or, at least, to believe this of herself.
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| Book Review Not Job's Comforter
by Merna Summers
Mistry's portrait of India in the time of Indira Gandhi depicts lives of struggle, exploitation, and desperate loss, suggesting to the reader that when it comes to meting out afflictions, the Hebrew God was a piker compared to Mother India.
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| Book Review Real Symbols
by Mark Cheetham
Mary Pratt's paintings have fascinated and given pleasure to an increasingly large and diverse audience over the past 25 years.
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| Book Review Irony Gets Ironic
by Stan Fogel
Hutcheon's strengths are the clarity of her prose and the thoroughness of her research.
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 | Coming Down
by Audrey Thomas,
256 pages $14.99 TP
ISBN: 0140249842
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Book Review Looking for Betrayal
by Lynne Luven
Audrey Thomas's new novel trundles readers through the red soil of West Africa and the shifting sands of memory as William's trek of discovery labors through past and present.
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| Book Review Reality Bites
by Eileen Manion
Taken together, these two novels, translated from the French, provide a sense of the range of experimental fiction.
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| Book Review Good Old Netherworld
by Diana Brebner
Rosemary Sullivan has come to this biography with her heart and her agenda on her sleeve. She was haunted by the mystery of Gwendolyn MacEwen.
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| Book Review The Artist as Shaman
by Pat Barclay
With her sincerity never in question, many of Butala's perceptions and insights easily make connections between her individual experience and the "common humanity" she shares with her readers.
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| Book Review L.A., Yorkshire
by Richard Perry
Robinson makes an 180 degree turn away from Inspector Banks' society of proprieties adhered to and sinned against, to the smogmurky, drug-elated, violence-addicted fantasy world of Los Angeles.
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 | Macken Charm
by Jack Hodgins,
320 pages $18.99 TP
ISBN: 0771041853
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Book Review Mourning Glory
by Glenn Sumi
Populated with larger-than-life characters -- colourful loggers, rustic prophets, and powerful women -Hodgins' fictional universe is as distinct as Laurence's Manawaka or Richer's Montreal.
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| Book Review On the Verge
by Irene Mock
What are the ways in which human beings bear the unbearable -- death, abandonment, betrayal?
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| Book Review With or Without Quebec
by Allan Levine
Just when you think that nothing further can be said or written about Quebec's often strained and tortured relationship with the rest of the country, along come two new books that tackle the subject from relatively novel angles.
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| Book Review Plain Speaking
by Scott Ellis
Revieweing poetry in Canada is like being class monitor in a one room, country schoolhouse when the teacher's away.
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| Interviews Hit Single - interview with Leon Rooke
by Nancy Wigston
Leon Rooke reveals that readers and audiences aren't the same
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| Letters to Editor Letters to the Editor
If BiC sees its mission as primarily a combination of information and boosterism for Canadian writing, it should nevertheless be concerned with the prerequisites of credibility upon which any journal's effectiveness in our literary culture depends.
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| Essays Reading the Labels
by Elise Levine
Coming through Slaughter displays a knowingness of the unspeakable and how we are each freighted with the dark particulars of history, with the obscene, terrible consequences of time and place goose-stepping us from birth to death.
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| Essays A Rare Book Story
by Helen Porter
Like most writers from the regions Newfoundland writers rarely see their works on the shelves of mainland bookstores. Even in our own province the books are all clumped together under a sign that reads Of Local Interest.
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| Prose/Poetry Half-Right - student writing award winner
I've changed. There can be no aloof square holes for crowding round pegs. Or the other way around. I forget how it goes. I'm flexible, I bend now. I can be whatever's needed. A man taught me that.
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| Prose/Poetry Poetry - student writing award winner
In your wedding dress, tight across the chest and tinged yellower than the custard tt began as, I could be a continuation.
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| Profiles A Bit of Wallowing
by John Degen
Christine Stater steps up from the Gutter.
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| First Novels First Novels - Wise Teen Girls
by Eva Tihanyi
The season has brought with it a huge pile of books with which I've built a tower in the comer of my study.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Denyse OLeary
His method is to exhaustively interview staff and inmates, as well as juvenile court judges. In the news business, a good rule of thumb is go to the source, he explains. And that's exactly where things went wrong.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Denyse OLeary
The anthropologist Elizabeth Furniss looks at the Indian residential schools from the perspective of the deaths of two children, one of whom died nearly a hundred years ago.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Review - Fiction
by Lorna Jackson
Like the quasi-moral tabloid photographer who scuttles around in her book, Soderstrom doesn't bother to give the lurid or painful details of contemporary life any more than a single dimension.
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 | The Voyage
by Robert MacNeil,
304 pages $32.95 TC
ISBN: 0385469527
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Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Pat Barclay
Informed detail, thoughtful characterization, and scrumptious political tidbits keep the story zipping briskly along, and the contrast between David's predictability and Francesca's impulsiveness provides agreeable suspense.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Lorna Jackson
Matthew Hart relies on satire for the condensation and restraint necessary to such an endeavour, but he underestimates the skill satiric prose demands.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Virginia Beaton
What Kinsella is focusing on is the way that time is measured in small towns, with special reference to events, especially disasters.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Tim Bowling
Most North Americans give little thought to the land on which they live, or to the natural and historical forces that shape their lives.
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 | The Inuk Mountie A Tom Austen Mystery
by Eric Wilson,
128 pages $14.95 TC
ISBN: 0002243946
|  | Follow the Moon
by Sarah Weeks, Suzanne Duranceau,
80 pages $21.89 LB
ISBN: 0060244437
|  | A Child's Portrait of Shakespeare
by Lois Burdett,
64 pages $8.95 TP
ISBN: 0887532616
| |  | The Last Quest of Gilgamesh Gilgamesh the King
by Ludmila Zeman, Ludmila Zeman,
24 pages $19.95 TC
ISBN: 0887763286
| | Aunt Mary Buttons
by Diane J. Jones, Diane J. Jones,
32 pages $11 TP
ISBN: 096994070X
|  | Melanie Bluelake's Dream
by Betty F. Dorion,
pages $5.95 TP
ISBN: 1550500813
| |  | Camilla Gryski's Cat's Cradle With a Friend or by Yourself
by Camilla Gryski, Tom Sankey,
32 pages $9.95 TP
ISBN: 1550742582
|  | The Twilight Marsh And Other Wilderness Adventures
by Todd Lee, Jim Brennan,
96 pages $10.95 TP
ISBN: 1896095070
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Children's Books Children's Books - Fringe Benefits
by Diane Schoemperlen
Being well aware of the growing need to compete for their attention, many children's book publishers have taken to packaging their products with related paraphernalia in order to attract the attention of their young readers.
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| Children's Books Young Adult Books - Getting to the Roots
by Heather Kirk
Unfortunately, children's books often have shallow roots in the soil of immediate social trends and problems, as well as market demands. Finding good books that go deep is difficult.
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| Douglas Fetherling Douglas Fetherling - A Riveting Non-person
by Douglas Fetherling
In 1956, Anthony Frisch, a poet of the day, organized a national writing competition for Canadian high school students, publishing the winning entries in a special anthology called First Flowering.
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| First Novel Award Student Writing Awards - Rising Stars
The work of the winners in the fifth year of the country's leading student writing competition shows remarkable complexity, as well as evidence of experience.
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| Outlook Outlook - The Gardener's Shadow
by Brian Bartlett
When I recently read this passage, it reminded me how rarely literary criticism connects our immediate world as readers -space, lighting, sound, weather, our most recent meal -- with our impressions of the book at hand.
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