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Sub Rosa
SUB ROSA by Amber Dawn (Arsenal Pulp), 317 pages. $22.95 paper. Rating: NNNNNothing is what it seems in Sub Rosa, Amber Dawn's stunning debut novel... -
Tyranny
TYRANNY by Lesley Fairfield (Tundra), 114 pages, $12.99 paper. Rating: NNNNThe b-side of becoming a Barbie girl in a Barbie world is the subject of... -
Druggies lives
IN THE REALM OF HUNGRY GHOSTS: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH ADDICTION by Gabor Mate (Knopf), 465 pages, $34.95 cloth. Rating: NNNNFinally, a book on addiction whose... -
Love birds
TWO LIVES: GERTRUDE AND ALICE by Janet Malcolm (Yale University), 229 pages, $25.74 cloth. Rating: NNNNTo talk about Gertrude Stein is to talk about Alice... -
Angell flies
LET ME FINISH by Roger Angell (Harcourt), 304 pages, $18.95 paper. Rating: NNNThough Roger Angell edited fiction at the New Yorker for over 40 years,... -
Old flames flicker
WAS SHE PRETTY? by Leanne Shapton (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 208 pages, $23 cloth. Rating: NNNWhile reading Was She Pretty?, Toronto-raised, New York-based artist and... -
Visible genius
RALPH ELLISON: A BIOGRAPHY by Arnold Rampersad (Knopf), 672 pages, $44 cloth. Rating: NNNN He was famous for a first novel so brilliant he couldn't... -
Kunkel’s Caulfield
Indecision: A NOVEL By Benjamin Kunkel (Random House), 241 pages, $29.95 cloth. Rating: NNNN Rating: NNNN Dwight Wilmerding, Indecision's earnest but deeply confused narrator, is... -
Lesbian pirates
Kingston By Starlight by Christopher John Farley (Three Rivers), 330 pages, $21 paper. Rating: NNN Rating: NNN Trained on Hollywood melodramas, those bodice-ripper extravaganzas, I... -
Icarus flies
Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi (Viking), 335 pages, $29 cloth. Rating: NNNN Rating: NNNNIn this story of cultural estrangement and loneliness, don't look for Icarus... -
A happy hooker
Belle De Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Anonymous (McArthur), 294 pages, $19.95 paper. Rating: NN Rating: NNChick lit is zipping... -
Smith falls
ELLIOTT SMITH AND THE BIG NOTHING by Benjamin Nugent (Da Capo), 224 pages, $ 33.95 cloth. Rating: NNNN Rating: NNNN buy this @ amazon.ca Like... -
In the Body Rub
Rating: NNNNNWhen the doorbell sounds, all the girls jump. It's a cheap bell, prolonged, and pregnant with scuffling as the girls around the room produce... -
Clashing with oldies
JOE STRUMMER AND THE MESCALeROS at HMV (333 Yonge), Wednesday (July 25), 9 pm. 416-596 0333. Rating: NNNNNwhen joe strummer tells me, "idon't have the... -
Priceless folk musicTamara Williamson rebels By LAUREN KIRSHNER
Tamara Williamson at the Rivoli (332 Queen West), Saturday (July 7). $8. 416-596-1908. Rating: NNNNNTamara Williamson at the Rivoli (332 Queen West), Saturday (July 7)....
