“Cortes Island” Alice Munro

2017-07-24T14:28:11-04:00

One wonders if the "little bride" would have sat with the Monicas on the beach in "Jakarta". Would she, in the eyes of Kath and Sonje, inhabit the model of femininity that the Monicas represent? Or would they encourage her to join them behind the logs? McClelland & Stewart,

“Cortes Island” Alice Munro2017-07-24T14:28:11-04:00

“Jakarta” Alice Munro

2014-07-11T17:02:58-04:00

"Give her a room of her own and five hundred a year, let her speak her mind and leave out half that she now puts in, and she will write a better book one of these days." So said Virginia Woolf. McClelland & Stewart, 1998 And although Kath

“Jakarta” Alice Munro2014-07-11T17:02:58-04:00

“The Love of a Good Woman” Alice Munro

2014-07-11T17:04:03-04:00

After a lifetime of collecting, Mr. Joseph Herbert Neill sold 1,000 objects to the county on the condition that they open a museum and appoint him curator. This is the story I imagine lurking behind the Walley museum in the opening paragraphs of "The Love of a Good Woman", behind D.M.

“The Love of a Good Woman” Alice Munro2014-07-11T17:04:03-04:00

Craig Davidson’s Cataract City (2013)

2014-07-11T16:47:56-04:00

Reading Craig Davidson's Cataract City took me somewhere else. You might think, if you have heard something of the novel, that I am about to say Niagara Falls. But as much as the novel is about two boys' coming-of-age in this environs, it is a study of how 'what-came-before' morphs and

Craig Davidson’s Cataract City (2013)2014-07-11T16:47:56-04:00

Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda (2013)

2014-05-13T14:06:07-04:00

Twenty-two years ago, I clipped an article from a Toronto newspaper about the restoration of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons near Midland, Ontario. I had studied the history of the mission and the slaughter of the Jesuit priests when I was in elementary school, culminating in a vague understanding of it

Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda (2013)2014-05-13T14:06:07-04:00
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