Stevenwbeattie - stevenwbeattie.com - That Shakespearean Rag
General Information:
Latest News:
Down in the depths 5 Feb 2013 | 04:34 am
A tweet from August C. Bourré (@FishSauce) earlier today sent me on a hunt for the review I wrote of Warren Ellis’s debut novel, Crooked Little Vein, which was one of the pieces that got lost when I a...
Jane Austen, computer algorithms, and the enduring importance of the literary expert 2 Feb 2013 | 02:15 am
To the literary critic’s toolbox, which includes concepts such as mimesis, irony, and the unreliable narrator, it might soon be necessary to add stylometry and culturomics. The former refers to a quan...
“To the madness that is Serbia!” 29 Jan 2013 | 07:19 pm
Song of Kosovo. Chris Gudgeon; $29.95 cloth 978-0-86492-679-1, 320 pp., Goose Lane Editions When people think of war in the context of CanLit, it is typically the First World War that comes to mind. B...
A walk on the wild side: the hard-boiled world of Lawrence Block 19 Jan 2013 | 09:21 pm
A Drop of the Hard Stuff. Lawrence Block; $16.50 paper 978-0-316-12731-8, 340 pp., Mulholland Books Getting Off. Lawrence Block; $17.95 paper 978-0-85768-582-7, 336 pp., Hard Case Crime In any survey ...
“I am fine with being marginal”: Poet and essayist Catherine Owen 10 Jan 2013 | 06:36 pm
Vancouver poet and musician Catherine Owen is the author of nine books of poetry. She has also published numerous chapbooks, and her work has appeared in various publications and anthologies. She has ...
Shortcuts: a new National Post column on short fiction 4 Jan 2013 | 11:48 pm
Longtime readers of TSR will be familiar with my affinity for short fiction, and my oft-repeated contention that Canada ranks as one of the most fertile literary fields for this particular genre. Yet,...
New reviews online: Spencer Gordon, Carol Shaben Terence Dickinson, and Cary Fagan 4 Jan 2013 | 02:20 am
Kicking off 2013, I’ve got a quartet of new Quill & Quire reviews online, including a fabulously rare review of a novel for children. First up is a stellar debut story collection from Spencer Gordon. ...
Laughter in the dark 2 Jan 2013 | 08:35 pm
Dead Funny: Telling Jokes in Hitler’s Germany. Rudolph Herzog, Jefferson Chase, trans.; $16.95 paper 978-1-61219-130-0, 250 pp., Melville House Publishing “A guy goes to the dentist, who says, ‘Open y...
Nicole Dixon review, holiday party guests 15 Dec 2012 | 09:17 pm
My review of Nicole Dixon’s short-story collection, High-Water Mark, is online at the National Post‘s Afterword blog. The review has already come in for criticism on Twitter as a result of my invocati...
Make mine a double (double): Dougals Hunter on Tim Hortons’ rise to coffee superstardom 13 Dec 2012 | 09:42 pm
Double Double: How Tim Hortons Became a Canadian Way of Life, One Cup at a Time. Douglas Hunter; $33.99 cloth 978-1-44340-673-4, 382 pp., HarperCollins Canada The year 2004 is remarkable in the histor...
