The Second Five Years: Reviews 2002-2006

Current Reviews

Acts of the Apostles by John F. X. Sundman
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
The Afterword by Mike Bryan
All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker
The Buzzing by Jim Knipfel
Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker
Consent by Ben Schrank
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Dodecahedron by
Paul Glennon
The Empty Café by Michael Hoffman
Everyone In Silico by Jim Munroe
Extravagance by Gary Krist
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

Gargoyles by
Bill Gaston (at Quill & Quire)
The Grammar Architect by
Chris Eaton
Headcrusher by Alexander Garros and Aleksei Evdokimov
How to Become a Monster by
Jean Barbe
Ignorance by Milan Kundera
The Inactivist by Chris Eaton
Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Light of Day by Graham Swift
Love Monkey by Kyle Smith
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
The March by E. L. Doctorow
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin
Muriella Pent by Russell Smith
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
A Perfect Night to Go to China by
David Gilmour
The Ruins by Scott Smith
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton by Michael Collins
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Ed. by Jonathan Lethem
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
Small Crimes In an Age of Abundance by Matthew Kneale
Sparrow Nights by David Gilmour
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
Story House by Timothy Taylor
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
Sushi Daze by Rob Payne
Terrorist by John Updike
Testament by Nino Ricci
Theft by Peter Carey
The Whore's Child by Richard Russo
Three Day Road by
Joseph Boyden
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro (at Quill & Quire)
Whatever Happens by Tim Conley
Yesterday's People by Goran Simic

From Sarajevo, With Sorrow by Goran Simic
Hand Luggage by P. K. Page
In the Lights of a Midnight Plow by David Hickey
The Jill Kelly Poems by Alessandro Porco
The New Canon Ed. by Carmine Starnino
Night Street Repairs by A. F. Moritz
Poetry After 9/11 Ed. by Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians

Second Opinions
brief reviews of award-winning books

Atonement by Ian McEwan
Boswell's Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Eunoia by Christian Bök
The Third Reich by Michael Burleigh
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

The Classics and the Pops
a series of retrospectives

CLASSICS:
1. Richard II by William Shakespeare
2. The Tower by W. B. Yeats
3. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
POPS:
1. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
2. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
3. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

12 Books that Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg
1491 by Charles Mann
The Air Loom Gang by Mike Jay
After the Victorians by A. N. Wilson
Alexander by Guy MacLean Rogers
Alexander the Great by Paul Cartledge
Alfred Hitchcock by Patrick McGilligan
All You Can Eat by Linda McQuaig
American Backlash by Michael Adams
American Studies by Louis Menand
American Vertigo by Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein

Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash
Beauty Junkies by Alex Kuczynski
The Big Chill by Dennis Loy Johnson
Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow
Boiling Point by Ross Gelbspan
Branded by Alissa Quart
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
Censored 2003 by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
The Devil and the Disappearing Sea by
Rob Ferguson
Director's Cut by David Solway
DisneyWar
by James B. Stewart
Dr. Delicious by
Robert Lecker
The Dust of Empire by Karl E. Meyer
Failed States by Noam Chomsky
Fake by Kenneth Walton
The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
Fences and Windows by
Naomi Klein
Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks
Free Rider by J. L. Reynolds
The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
Future: Tense by Gwynne Dyer
The Genius Factory by David Plotz

The Great Movies by Roger Ebert
The Great Movies II by Roger Ebert
The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk
Heavenly Intrigue by Joshua Gilder and Anne-Lee Gilder
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
Hello, I'm Special by
Hal Niedzviecki
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
In Praise of Nepotism by Adam Bellow
It's the Crude, Dude by
Linda McQuaig
The Judgment of Paris by Ross King
Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
Kings of Convergence by
Gordon Pitts
Koba the Dread by Martin Amis
Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
Language Visible by
David Sacks
Left Hook by George Bowering
Let a Simile Be Your Umbrella by William Safire
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Lover's Quarrel by
Carmine Starnino
Love, Sex & Tragedy by Simon Goldhill
Madame Bovary's Ovaries by David P. and Nanelle R. Barash
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
Masters of Doom by David Kushner
Media Unlimited by Todd Gitlin
Melville by Andrew Delbanco
Mental Hygiene by
Ray Robertson
The Names of Things by David Helwig
The Natural by Joe Klein
The Natural History of the Rich by Richard Conniff
Pandemonium by
Andrew Nikiforuk
Paris 1919 by
Margaret MacMillan
Pendulum by Amir Aczel
The Polite Revolution by
John Ibbitson
Positively Fifth Street by James McManus
Power Failure by Mimi Swartz with Sherron Watkins
Prisoners of the North by
Pierre Berton
A Reader's Manifesto by B. R. Myers
Restless Giant by James T. Patterson
The Second World War by Joanna Bourke
Shades of Black by Richard Siklos
Sinclair Lewis by Richard Lingeman
Somerset Maugham: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers
Souvenir of Canada by
Douglas Coupland
Souvenir of Canada 2 by Douglas Coupland
Speer: The Final Verdict by Joachim Fest
Spoken Here by
Mark Abley
Stone Country by
George Bowering
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
Thank You for Not Reading by Dubravka Ugresic
Them by Jon Ronson
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
This Is My Country, What's Yours? by Noah Richler (at Quill & Quire)
Tomorrow Now by Bruce Sterling
A Trial by Jury by D. Graham Burnett
The Voynich Manuscript by Gerry Kennedy and Rob Churchill
The War Against Cliché by Martin Amis
A War Against Truth
by Paul William Roberts
Well of Lies by
Colin N. Perkel
What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
What We've Lost by Graydon Carter
When Words Deny the World by Stephen Henighan
Who Owns History? by Eric Foner
With Every Mistake by Gwynne Dyer
Written in the Flesh by Edward Shorter
Wrong Way by Jacquie McNish and Sinclair Stewart