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Val Ross

Val Ross, deputy Comment editor of The Globe and Mail, is a former arts editor of Maclean’s magazine and has covered books and the publishing industry for the Globe.

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Departing from the Script

Getting stuck between fantasy and reality can produce painfully funny fiction November 2006
Trevor Cole is emerging as a master of obsessive-delusional-neurotic-tragicomic fiction. His two novels, Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life (which was shortlisted for a 2004 Governor General’s Award for Fiction) and his latest, The Fearsome Particles, both told from the points of view of obsessive and delusional people, are distressing and sometimes cringe-making…

The Fine Line between Predator and Prey

A Newfoundland writer produces a novel that reveals our reptilian reactions January–February 2006
Sometimes in this life we find we are the predators, sometimes we are the prey. And sometimes we actually convince ourselves that we can negotiate the difference—that we can stick our heads into a reeking mouth and then pull back a hair’s breadth ahead of the teeth, just in time to cheat the jaws. It is the borderlines among all these states of…