Reviews

The New Game: How Hockey Saved Itself

Although author and TVOntario personality Steve Paikin clearly loves and understands the game of hockey and its history, there is little in this compact and quick read to suggest that the game – at the ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Everywhere Being Is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking

By Robert Bringhurst

Poet, philosopher, translator, linguist, critic, typographer, ethnographer – Robert Bringhurst is a rare sort of person: an independent scholar and a non-specialist. As such, he is just the sort of voice we should be listening ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Ebb and Flow

By Tom Koppel

Tom Koppel, the author of 2001’s Powering the Future, has always had a thing for tides, ever since his summer visits to Star Island as a child. Boasting only one tree on its barren flanks, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World’s Longest Undefended Border Across the Western Plains

By Tony Rees

Comparing a Canadian-history writer with Pierre Berton is not something that should be done lightly; Berton’s ability to make history accessible to the masses is legendary. However, with Arc of the Medicine Line, Tony Rees ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: History

The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul

By Mario Beauregard, Denyse O’Leary

Head through the Ideas or Books section of any weekend paper these days and an unquestioned orthodoxy quickly asserts itself from behind the veneer of open-minded enquiry. That orthodoxy is the doctrine of scientific materialism, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Benoit: Wrestling with the Horror That Destroyed a Family and Crippled a Sport

By Steven Johnson, Heath McCoy, Irvin Muchnick, and Greg Oliver

In Benoit, four wrestling journalists pen essays about the Alberta-born grappler Chris Benoit, who – in a possible fit of steroid-induced rage – murdered his wife and child before killing himself in Atlanta in June ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army

By Christie Blatchford

Stating the obvious: you either love Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford or you loathe her. To those in the former group, she is the shoots-from-the-hip, tough-as-nails scribe of the people with a heart of ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Cruellest Month

By Louise Penny

Many mystery buffs have credited Louise Penny with the revival of the type of traditional murder mystery made famous by Agatha Christie. Such claims are somewhat exaggerated for a career only three books old, yet ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ruby Tuesday

By Mike Harrison

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stand Still

By Nigel Dickson

It would seem unlikely, at this late date, for there to be something noteworthy about a book of portraiture, one of the seemingly most degraded of visual art forms. After all, if you can have ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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