Criticism & Essays

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

Irregular verbs! The very thought is enough to give anyone who has struggled with them a headache. In Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, MIT professor and evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker has taken that ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Peregrinations: Conversations with Contemporary Artists

By Robert Enright

Winnipeg art critic Robert Enright has been a fixture on the Canadian art scene for years and best known as editor at large of the art quarterly, Border Crossings. His preferred writing format is the ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture

By Robert Fulford

What are stories for? For inspiring and instructing, for explaining and illuminating the world. With stories we argue, entertain, remember, and learn how to live our lives. “The stories people tell have a way of ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies

By Dominick LaCapra

Dominick LaCapra’s collection of essays about history and reading is based on a series of popular lectures that he recently gave at the University of British Columbia. The book’s cover is appropriately adorned with Vermeer’s ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Tom Thomson’s Shack

By Harold Rhenisch

Harold Rhenisch’s Tom Thomson’s Shack is filled with arresting images. A poet with 11 previous books to his credit – including the recent novel Carnival – Rhenisch has turned his hand this time to short ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Clouded Leopard: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire

By Wade Davis

In his novel Justine Lawrence Durrell made the observation that “We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behaviour and even thought.” Wade Davis, a Canadian anthropologist and Harvard-trained ethnobotanist, has lived his life ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Body Music

By Dennis Lee

What is most striking about Dennis Lee’s latest volume – a collection of essays about poetry and poets – is that it’s poetic in its execution of language and expression of ideas. Body Music is ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Golden Thread: A Reader’s Journey Through the Great Books

By Bruce Meyer

By now, Canadians devoted to CBC Radio will know Toronto poet and academic Bruce Meyer from his regular book talks with This Morning host Michael Enright, even if they have never read any of the ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World

By Stephen Osborne

Stephen Osborne is one of the original founders of Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press (known as Pulp Press in the 1970s). He is the publisher of Geist magazine, and Ice & Fire is the first title ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

This Is Our Writing

By T.F. Rigelhof

In This is Our Writing, T.F. Rigelhof, a teacher at Montreal’s Dawson College, evaluates the achievements of Mordecai Richler, Leonard Cohen, Mavis Gallant, and other Canadian prose writers. Some of these pizzazzy essays previously appeared ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

Peregrinations: Conversations with Contemporary Artists

The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture

History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies

Tom Thomson’s Shack

The Clouded Leopard: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire

Body Music

The Golden Thread: A Reader’s Journey Through the Great Books

Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World

This Is Our Writing

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