Posted in books, reviews, tagged Cockroach, Giller Prize, Rawi Hage on November 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A review of Cockroach by Rawi Hage. House of Anansi Press. Toronto: 2008
Rawi Hage’s second novel Cockroach takes place during a frigid Montreal winter and details the picaresque adventures of an unnamed protagonist, a recent immigrant from the Middle East and self-professed thief who often envisions himself as a giant cockroach. Hage is the recent [...]
Posted in books, reviews, tagged debt, Faust, Margaret Atwood, Massey Lectures, Scrooge on November 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A review of Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood. Toronto: Anansi. 2008.
Given the current worldwide economic malaise, it appears rather prescient that the 2008 Massey Lectures address the subject of debt. In these lectures, Margaret Atwood examines of the concept of debt as a motif in human society, particularly through an [...]
Posted in books, reviews, tagged book review, Giller Prize, Mary Swan on November 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A review of The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan (2008).
There has been a recent trend among some journalists in Canada to reflexively dismiss what has been termed, often derisively, as “Canadian gothic.” Although the term is vague and not precisely defined, it is essentially accepted as dark, tragic, nineteenth-century rural Canadian narrative (for example, [...]
