Reviews

★ The First Man in My Life: Daughters Write About Their Fathers

In her introduction to this excellent collection of short essays by prominent Canadian women about their fathers, editor Sandra Martin admits that finding a title that “didn’t imply incest as an overarching theme was an ... Read More »

May 14, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The End of the Alphabet

By CS Richardson

When Ambrose Zephyr learns that he has less than a month to live, he produces a suitcase full of travel brochures, dons his one good suit, and, with his charming wife in tow, sets off ... Read More »

May 9, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cobalt Blue

By Mary Borsky

Fans of Mary Borsky’s first short-story collection, Influence of the Moon, will be pleased to see that in two stories from her new collection, she revisits not only the characters of Irene Lychenko and her ... Read More »

May 7, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Divisadero

By Michael Ondaatje

Readers of Michael Ondaatje’s work will find two familiar voices competing for space on the pages of Divisadero. There is the Ondaatje of the earlier novels and poem sequences, the craftsman who found poetry and ... Read More »

April 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Sleeping Buddha: Portraits of a Changing Afghanistan

By Hamida Ghafour

In 2003, journalist Hamida Ghafour was asked by London’s Daily Telegraph to go to Afghanistan – the country from which her family had fled 21 years earlier, when she was four – to report on ... Read More »

April 16, 2007 | Filed under: History

A Memoir of Friendship: The Letters Between Carol Shields and Blanche Howard

By Blanche Howard and Allison Howard, eds

Carol Shields and Blanche Howard were friends for 30 years, starting in the early 1970s, despite a 12-year gap in age (Shields being the younger). Both were writers and feminists with strong marriages and large ... Read More »

April 9, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Chainsaws: A History

By David Lee

Odds are this is the first time the chainsaw and the coffee table book have been combined. That pairing’s not a bad thing. And neither is this book. Given the chainsaw’s importance in helping to ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

By Karolyn Smardz Frost

There have been many books written about the plight of slaves fleeing to Canada prior to the American civil war. In I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land, Toronto-born archaeologist Karolyn Smardz Frost has chosen ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Iced: Crystal Meth – The Biography of North America’s Deadliest New Plague

By Jerry Langton

Toward the end of Iced, journalist and author Jerry Langton writes that the drug methamphetamine, aka “meth,” has divided the North American media into two camps: “Those who believe meth is bad, dangerous and rapidly ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Jesus of Hollywood

By Adele Reinhartz

It’s tempting to praise University of Ottawa professor Adele Reinhartz’s Jesus of Hollywood, an evenhanded and thorough survey of representations of Jesus in popular cinema, simply for all the ways it doesn’t go wrong. In ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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