Michael Taylor

All the time I was reading Carol Shields' second novel, The Box Garden, the title of her first, small Ceremonies, buzzed in my inner ear, a nagging reminder of the art that made the first novel such a pleasure to read and a touchstone by which to judge the success of the second.

Written in 1975, World of Wonders completes Robertson Davies' triology begun by Fifth Business

The Coming of Age, David Richard's first novel, begins in a manner that might have been appropriate for his second and most recent, Blood Ties

The danger with a fine and disturbing book like Bear lies, I suspect,in its legitimate attraction for the allegorists of the Canadian experience.

Sylvia's Fraser's first novel, Pandora, was widely acclaimed for its determined

Acoording to George Orwell, in his sane moments King Lear doesn't make a

Oberon press continues to produce as handsome a line of books for their price as can be found anywhere in North America, but does so--if my experience with our collection of short stories from The Fiddlehead, Fiddlehead Greens, is anything to go by--without what the publisher must surely regard as the superfluous intercession of author or compiler in the book's occult progress through the press.

Fireweed is a weed which manages to grow in a burnt clearing

Austin Clarke's career as a novelist