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Author: Cohen
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JanFeb 1999
Trudeau Haunts Us Still
by H Forbes
Unlike the proverbial old soldier, Trudeau is not just fading away. His departure will be marked by many lengthy commentaries and reflections. During his sixteen years as our Prime Minister, he worked deep changes in our understanding of ourselves. Later, Read more...
| JanFeb 1995
All about Love
by Eileen Manion
Almost to the end of the novel, Monique Proulx maintains some of the suspense she builds up concerning the interrelationships of her characters. I read it with the intense commitment and absorption of a whodunit. Read more...
| Sep 1993
 | A Handful of Seeds
by Monica Hughes, Luis Garay,
Orchard Books
32 pages $14.95 TC
ISBN: 0531094987
|  | The Longest Home Run
by Roch Carrier, Sheila Fischman, Sheldon Cohen,
24 pages $15.95 TC
ISBN: 0887763006
|  | Grampa's Alkali
by Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet,
96 pages $8.95 TP
ISBN: 0889950962
| | | The Best of Arlie Zack
by Hazel Hutchins, Ruth Ohi,
88 pages $4.95 TP
ISBN: 1550373153
|  | Belle's Journey
by Marilynn Reynolds, Stephen McCallum,
32 pages $7.95 TP
ISBN: 1551430215
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Children's Books - Reader in Transition
by Elizabeth Anthony
While this book is ostensibly addressed to children of all ages, its naive idealism best suits the very young, who are novices to, not veterans of, the play ground. Read more...
| Oct 1992
First Novels - Genre Journeys
by Douglas Hill
IN A Sense of Honour (Hounslow, 201 pages, $15.95 paper) Roy French has crammed the IRA, the SAS, the RCMP, the CSIS, the Mossad and something called the Sons of Palestine, as well as the Canadian prime minister, an airplane hijacking, and the city of Brampton, Ontario, into a wildly improbable blow'em-up terrorist thriller. It did keep me reading for an hour or so, but I suspect true fans of the genre will immediately recognize a clone when they see one. The writing is clumsy and fraught with c Read more...
| Nov 1990
Sums Of Love
by Keith Garebian
THERE ARE GENERAL LINKS between this novel and Matt Cohen`s earlier ones -- madness, a constant interpenetration of past and present, inversions of customary romance, and a character who, as it turns out, was the eponymous heroine of Nadine (1986) and here acts as an ironic catalyst in the background. But Emotional Arithmetic is quite unlike any of his earlier fictions. Read more...
| Dec 1993
Brief Reviews
by David Homel
ONEOF THOSE rare bilingual/biculturalexperiments that produce not just goodwill, but good results as well, ParallelVoices/Voix paralleles (Quarry/XYZ editeur, 249 pages, $23.95 paper) is acollection of English-Canadian and quebecois writers of shortfiction, paired together, who read and translate each other. Sounds like aproject hatched in a barroom, right? Indeed, it was, as the editors Matt Cohenand Andre Carpentier happily admit in their introduction. Read more...
| Dec 1990
From Accord To Ambiguity
by Ramsay Cook
In the aftermath of Meech Lake, all deals are off
THE MEECH LAKE ACCORD was hatched in that peculiar Canadian incubator, the Premiers` Club, whose most striking characteristics, according to Andrew Cohen in A Deal Undone, are "the male bonding, the union of the jocks, the fidelity and the fraternity." Who will ever forget that scene late on Saturday, June 9, when, after nearly a week of arm-twisting, the premiers took turns congratulating each other on "standing tall Read more...
| Nov 2002
 | The Trade Mission
by Andrew Pyper
HarperFlamingo
293 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 0002005085
|  | DreadfulWater Shows Up
by Hartley GoodWeather
Harper Flamingo Canada
234 pages $32 cloth
ISBN: 0002005107
|  | That Sleep Of Death
by Richard King
Dundurn
304 pages $11.99 paper
ISBN: 0888822294
| |  | Death on the Rocks
by Eric Wright
Dundurn
271 pages $19.99 paper
ISBN: 1550023810
|  | Haudenosaunnee
by Don Atkinson
Trafford
232 pages $26.74 paper
ISBN: 1552126811
|  | The Holy
by Daniel Quinn
Context Books
419 pages $24 paper
ISBN: 189395630X
| |  | Heads You Lose
by Martin S. Cohen
Ekstasis Noir
314 pages $19.95 paper
ISBN: 1896860931
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Mysteries and Thrillers
by Robert Allen Papinchak
Amateur detective Sam Wiseman seems to have the perfect day job for investigative talents in Richard King's engaging first novel, That Sleep Of Death (Dundurn, 304 pages, $11.99, paper, ISBN: 0888822294). Sam sells books in the vicinity of McGill University. A good bookseller appears to have the same skills as a good detectiveł "clever questioning, an ability to absorb and retain details about lots of different books, intuition, and sometimes inspired guesswork. Read more...
| JanFeb 1987
Children of the world
by I.M. Owen
Alberto Manguel has apparently read everything, which gives him an unfair advantage over other anthologists. This latest book contains one story apiece from 16 writers, 10 of whom were completely unknown to me till now. Five of the 16 are American: two Canadian, two English, two Argentine, and one each Hungarian, Swedish, Danish, Italian, and Swiss.
The theme of the anthology is the bond - or the lack of it - between parents and their children. Read more...
| JanFeb 1987
Politics and Politicos
by Mathew Behrens
The battle over Northwest Indian fishing rights, though it received international attention more than 20 years ago with the arrests of Dick Gregory and Marlon Brando at "fish-ins," remains a controversial issue whose eventual settlement could seta major precedent for scores of similar conflicts. Read more...
| Nov 2006
 | Book of Longing
by Leonard Cohen
McClelland & Stewart
240 pages $32.99 paper
ISBN: 0771022344
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Gypsy Boy
by Asa Boxer
One of the most horrifying moments in Leonard Cohen's oeuvre occurs in his novel The Favourite Game, when the young protagonist, Lawrence Breavman hypnotises Heather, the house maid. He has her undress and hold his penis, exulting in his magical prowess, then has her dress and forget everything. Excitedly, he rushes through the de-hypnosis process, but in his haste, he fails to completely release her suspended psyche. Read more...
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