canadian ~ twenty-first century literature since 1999


FICTION REVIEWS


Reviewer
A
Philip David Alexander - The Next Rainy Day (2005) Michael Bryson
Wayne Arthurson - Final Season (2002) Robert LeBlanc
Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland (2001) Mark Sampson
B
Mike Barnes - Aquarium (1999) Patra Reiser
Mike Barnes - The Syllabus (2002) Keith Ebsary
Gary Barwin - Doctor Weep and Other Strange Teeth (2004) Michael Bryson
Dana Bath - Universal Recipients (2003) Aidan Baker
Saul Bellow - More Die of Heartbreak (1987) Michael Bryson
Jonathan Bennett - After Battersea Park (2001) Mark Sampson
Jonathan Bennett - Verandah People (2003) Alex Boyd
Tom Bentley - Blind Man's Drum (2002) Robert LeBlanc
Rob Benvie - Safety of War (2004) Aidan Baker
Clark Blaise - Pittsburgh Stories (2001) Harold Hoefle
Clark Blaise - Montreal Stories (2003) Kane X. Faucher
Christian Bök - Eunoia (2001) Michel Basilieres
John Brooke - All Pure Souls (2002) Christine I. Speakman
Andy Brown - I Can See You Being Invisible (2003) Michael Bryson
Geoffrey Brown - Notice (1999) Jason Millar
Tony Burgess - Pontypool Changes Everything (1998) Michael Bryson
Tony Burgess - Caesarea (1999) Michael Bryson
Clint Burnham - Smoke Show (2005) Roger Davidson
C
Natalee Caple - The Heart is Its Own Reason (1998) Michael Bryson
Natalee Caple - The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World (1999) Michael Bryson
Anne Cameron - Family Resemblances (2003) Marcie McCauley
Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions (2000) Aidan Baker
André Carpentier - Rue Saint Denis: Fantastic Tales (2001) Aidan Baker
Jim Christy - Terminal Avenue (2002) Aidan Baker
Jim Christy - Tight Like That (2003) Michael Bryson
Lynn Coady - Strange Heaven (1998) Michael Bryson
Lynn Coady - Play the Monster Blind (2000) Harold Hoefle
Martin S. Cohen - Heads You Lose (2002) Joanne Haskin
Coming Attractions 04 - featuring Neil Smith, Marureen Bilerman and Jaspreet Singh (2004) Michael Bryson
Tim Conley - Whatever Happens (2006) Michael Bryson
Ken Cormier - Balance Act: Poems & Stories (2000) Aidan Baker
Ivan E. Coyote - Close to Spider Man (2000) Nathan Whitlock
Ivan E. Coyote - One Man's Trash (2002) Alex Boyd
Libby Creelman - Walking in Paradise (2000) Patra Reiser
Lynn Crosbie - Dorothy L'Amour: A Novel (1999) Michael Bryson
Cyclops (2003) Rob Thomas
D
Cyril Dabydeen - My Brahmin Days (2000) Ted Harms
Cyril Dabydeen - Play A Song Somebody (2004) Anne Borden
Cyril Dabydeen - Drums of My Flesh (2005) Anne-Marie Lee-Loy
Lynette D'anna - Fool's Bells (1999) Aidan Baker
Peter Darbyshire - Please (2002) Michael Bryson
Craig Davidson - Rust and Bone (2005) Michael Bryson
Paul Davies - Some Sunny Day (2005) Adam Swimmer
Brian Joseph Davis - Portable Altamont (2005) Janine Armin
Ramona Dearing - So Beautiful (2004) Adam Swimmer
Dominique Demers - Maina (2001) Ibi Kaslik
Dennis Denisoff - The Winter Gardeners (2003) Scott Albert
Anne Denoon - Backflip (2002) Michael Bryson
Salvatore Difalco - Outside (2006)  Christina Decarie
M.T. Dohaney - A Fit Month for Dying (2000) Nathan Whitlock
Mark Doyon - Bonneville (2001) Michael Bryson
Ryszard Dubanski - Black Teeth (2005)  Michael Murphy
E
Chris Eaton - The Grammar Architect (2005) Roger Davidson
Sharon English - Uncomfortably Numb (2002) Aidan Baker
F
Will Ferguson - Happiness (2002) Michael Bryson
Stephen Finucan - Happy Pilgrims (2000) Harold Hoefle
Jon Paul Fiorentino - Asthmatica (2005) Nathaniel Moore
Matthew Firth - Can You Take Me There, Now? (2001) Michael Bryson
Beth Follet - Tell It Slant (2001) Michel Basilieres
Brian Francis - Fruit (2004) Anne Borden
G
Len Gasparini - My Uncle Roy Was a Mob Guy (2006) Christina Decarie
Bill Gaston - Sex is Red (1998) Aidan Baker
Bill Gaston - The Good Body (2000) Harold Hoefle
Marilyn Gear Pilling - The Roseate Spoonbill of Happiness (2002) Michael Bryson
Marty Gervais - Reno (2005) Adam Swimmer
Carole Giangrade - A Forest Burning (2000) Harold Hoefle
Sky Gilbert - St. Stephen's (1999) Ibolya Kaslik
Paul Glennon - How Did You Sleep? (2000) Dimitri Nasrallah
Douglas Glover - 16 Categories of Desire (2000) Michael Bryson
Douglas Glover - The Life and Times of Captain N. (2001) Michael Bryson
Douglas Glover - Elle (2003) Lori Hahnel
Douglas Glover - The South Will Rise At Noon (2004) Michael Bryson
Jonathan Goldstein - Lenny Bruce is Dead (2001) Ken Sparling
John Gould - Kilter: 55 fictions (2003) Michael Bryson
James Grainger - The Long Slide (2004) Michael Bryson
Terence M. Green - A Witness to Life (2000) Harold Hoefle
Terence M. Green - Shadow of Ashland (2000) Michael Bryson
Terence M. Green - St. Patrick's Bed (2001) Michael Bryson
Grunt & Groan: The New Fiction Anthology of Work & Sex (2002) Michael Bryson
H
Kenneth J. Harvey - The Town that Forgot How to Breathe (2003) Alex Boyd
Elizabeth Haynes - Speak Mandarin, Not Dialect (1999) Patra Reiser
Maggie Helwig - Between Mountains (2005) Faruk Myrtaj
Sheila Heti - The Middle Stories (2001) Michael Bryson
Joy Hewitt Mann - Clinging to Water (2000) Jonathan J. Sherer
Harold Hoefle - Spray Job: Stories (2003) Lori Lavalee
Michael Hoffman - The Empty Cafe Mark Sampson
Michael Holmes - 21 Hotels (1998) Michael Bryson
Michael Holmes - Watermelon Row (2000) Dimitri Nasrallah
J
Mark Anthony Jarman - Salvage King, Ya!: A Herky-Jerky Picaresque (1997) Michael Bryson
Mark Anthony Jarman - New Orleans is Sinking (1998) Michael Bryson
Mark Anthony Jarman - 19 Knives (2000) Shane Neilson
Paulette Jiles - Enemy Women (2001) Shane Neilson
Sean Johnston - A Day Does Not Go By (2002) Michael Bryson
K
Andrew Kaufman - All My Friends Are Superheroes (2003) JC Bellringer
Greg Kearney - Mommy, Daddy, Baby (2004) Michael Bryson
Susan Kerslake - Seasoning Fever (2002) Teri Marcotte
Catherine Kidd - Sea Peach (2002) Michael Bryson
Theresa Kishkan - Inishbream (2001) Robert LeBlanc
Monica S. Kuebler - Legacy (and other short fiction) (1999) Michael Bryson
L
Robert Lalonde - The Whole Wide World (2002) Harold Hoefle
Barbara Lambert - A Message for Mr. Lazarus (2000) Joy Hewitt Mann
Evelyn Lau - Choose Me (1999) Michael Bryson
John Lavery - Very Good Butter (2000) Michael Bryson
John Lavery - You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off (2004) Michael Bryson
Alexandra Leggat - Pull Gently, Tear Here (2000) Michael Bryson
Annabel Lyon - Oxygen (2000) Ted Harms
M
Judy MacDonald - Grey: Stories for Grown-Ups (2001) Aidan Baker
Mark Macdonald - Flat (2000) Lori Hahnel
Mark Macdonald - Home (2001) Mark Samson
Paul Nicholas Mason - Battered Soles (2005) Adam Swimmer
JoAnn McCaig - The Textbook of the Rose (2000) K.I. Press
Tessa McWatt - Dragon's Cry (2001) K.I. Press
Jeffrey Moore - Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain (1999) Richard di Santo
John Moore - The Flea Market (2003) Adam Swimmer
Lisa Moore - Open (2002) Michael Bryson
Moosecall #3: Big Game, Small Stories (2006) Michael Bryson
Mike Morey - Uncle Dirty (2003) Scott Albert
Bernice Morgan - The Topography of Love (2000) Lori Hahnel
Gustave Morin - A Penny Dreadful (2003) a.e.m.
Alayna Munce - When I was Young And In My Prime (2005) Alex Boyd
Jim Munroe - Angry Young Spaceman (2000) Aidan Baker
Jim Munroe - Everyone in Silico (2002) Lori Hahnel
N
Hal Niedzviecki - Ditch (2001) Michael Bryson
Kent Nussey - A Love Supreme (2003) Aidan Baker
O
Emile Ollivier - Passages (2003) Mike Woods
P
P.K. Page - A Kind of Fiction (2001) Shane Neilson
Brian Panhuyzen - Death of the Moon (1999) Michael Bryson
Rachael Preston - Tent of Blue (2002) Lori Hahnel
Andrew Pyper - Lost Girls (1999) Michael Bryson
Q
Philip Quinn - The Double (2003) Matthew Firth
R
Edeet Ravel - A Wall of Light (2005) Faruk Myrtaj
Michael Redhill - Martin Sloane (2001) Michael Bryson
ribsauce: a cd/anthology of words by women (2001) Michael Bryson
Mordecai Richler - The Acrobats (2002) Michael Bryson
Stan Rogal - bafflegab (2000) Shane Neilson
Leon Rooke - The Fall of Gravity (2000) Robert Pierre Tomas
Leon Rooke - Painting the Dog (2001) Michael Bryson
David Rose - Stripe (2001) Stephen Brockwell
S
Alexander Scala - Dr. Swarthmore (2001) Anne Borden
Rod Schumacher - Habits and Love (2002) Michael Bryson
Barbara Scott - The Quick (1999) Harold Hoefle
Goran Simic - Yesterday's People (2005) Michael Bryson
Anne Simpson - Cantebury Beach (2001) Shane Neilson
Jaspreet Singh - 17 Tomatoes (2004) Michael Bryson
Kenji Siratori - Blood Electric (2002) a.e.m.
Ron Smith - What Men Know About Women (1999) Aidan Baker
Russell Smith - Young Men (1999) Michael Bryson
Susannah M. Smith - How the Blessed Live (2002) Alex Boyd
J.J. Steinfeld - Would You Hide Me? (2003) Anthony Metivier
J.J. Steinfeld - Curiosity to Satisfy and Fear to Placate (2003) Michael Bryson
John Stiles - The Insolent Boy (2001) Matthew Firth
Mary Swan - Emma's Hands (2003) Scott Albert
T
David George Taylor - Moriah: A Quartet (2003) Adam Swimmer
Patrick Taylor - The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty (2004) Adam Swimmer
Richard Teleky - Pack Up the Moon (2001) Anthony Metevier
Jan Thornhill - Drought and other stories (2000) Ken Sparling
Lü Tiancheng - The Embroidered Couch (translated by Lenny Hu) (2001) Aidan Baker
Charles Tidler - Red Mango: a blues (2001) Richard Stevenson
Sherwin Tjia - Pedigree Girls (2001) Nathan Whitlock
Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium (1999) Michael Bryson
U
John Updike - Terrorist (2006) Michael Bryson
W
Mary Walters - Bitters (1999) Jason Millar
V
Richard Van Camp - Angel Wing Splash Pattern (2002) Matthew Firth
Various authors - The Paris Connection: Stories (2000)  Michael Bryson
Various authors - Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks (2004) Anne Borden
R.M. Vaughan - Spells (2003) Aidan Baker
L.E. Vollick - The Originals (2002) Aidan Baker
Y
Terence Young - Rhymes with Useless (2000) Harold Hoefle
Z
Mary Lou Zeitoun - 13 (2002) Aidan Baker
 

 

 

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