Reviews

They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers

Roméo Dallaire came to global attention for his efforts to stop the Rwandan genocide while serving with the U.N. He also received enormous praise for his book on the subject, Shake Hands with the Devil, ... Read More »

December 13, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Trouble with Billionaires: Why Too Much Money at the Top Is Bad for Everyone

By Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

The Trouble with Billionaires isn’t exclusively focused on exposing the problems caused by individuals with buckets of money. It is more concerned with how our culture, our government, and our economic system has allowed a ... Read More »

November 22, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Here Is Where We Disembark

By Clea Roberts

There is something about the bleakness and epic geographical scale of the Canadian North that arrests the collective imagination – something to do with our romanticized notions of survival in inhospitable climes, our respect (though ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

Indexical Elegies

By Jon Paul Fiorentino

In a book of short stories, a novel, and a handful of poetry collections over the past decade or so, Montreal writer, editor, and publisher Jon Paul Fiorentino has embraced and celebrated his anxieties, nervous ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

That Other Beauty

By Karen Enns

The rural life of a Mennonite community in Southern Ontario forms the backdrop to Karen Enns’ debut collection. At once lush and spare – evidence of mentor Patrick Lane’s influence is very much apparent – ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada

By Lily Cho

Turning a Ph.D. thesis into a general interest book has its challenges. If a dissertation is written for a group of examiners, particularly in an area as abstract as cultural studies, what appears on the ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Random Acts of Culture: Reclaiming Art and Community in the 21st Century

By Clarke Mackey

Modern life is fraught with paradoxes that can be soul-draining. We’re surrounded by labour-saving devices, but none of us has any time. Cultural artifacts present themselves on every screen, small or large, while time-honoured cultural ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Sanctuary Line

By Jane Urquhart

It is not a fictional location, but in Jane Urquhart’s hands, Southern Ontario has become an entire imagined world, much like Thomas Hardy’s Wessex or William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. Urquhart returns once again to this ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie

By Tim Cook

Sir Sam Hughes and Sir Arthur Currie, lifted out of obscurity by the First World War, occupy very different places in the pantheon of great Canadians. Hughes – the abrasive, unstable Minister of Militia and ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Breakfast at the Exit Café: Travels Through America

By Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds

In December 2006, husband and wife Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds decided to take the long way home from Vancouver to Ontario. Anxious to avoid winter driving, and eager to experience America – a nation ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

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