Reviews

★ Home Schooling

Until her nomination for this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize, Carol Windley was perennially under-known, though her stories have appeared in the Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Stories, and her first collection, Visible Light, was ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Inside Dope: How Drugs Are the Biggest Threat to Sports, Why You Should Care, and What Can Be Done About Them

By Dick Pound

Dick Pound has been likened to “the sheriff of the wild west,” and indeed the situation he describes in Inside Dope resembles an out-of-control frontier scene.Pound, a Montreal lawyer, is chairman of the World Anti-Doping ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Shoot Me

By Lesley Crewe

Some books have great openings. Shoot Me, the second novel by Cape Breton-based freelance magazine writer Lesley Crewe, opens with: “Hildy took a sip of her tea. It was cold. How bloody irritating.” Not an ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Art of Salvage

By Leona Theis

In 2000, Leona Theis’s first book, Sightlines, won two Saskatchewan Book Awards but failed to garner much attention outside her home province. Her newest offering, The Art of Salvage, may very well follow a similar ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The View from Castle Rock

By Alice Munro

I hope it can be said without sounding glib or condescending that one of the favourite literary genres for Canadians of a certain age and social background to try out is the family history/memoir. These ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Rain Before Morning

By Michael Poole

The towering cedar trees and lapping ocean water of the Canadian West Coast take centre stage in this novel, which charts the story of two young lovers who must brave familial pressures and the ravages ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Consolation

By Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill, author of many works of drama, poetry, and fiction, including the Giller-nominated novel Martin Sloane, sifts through the countless layers that form a city and a person in this, his second novel. Redhill ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet

By Carol Off

Biting into a seemingly innocuous chocolate bar, how many of us would ever stop to consider the sweet’s provenance, or wonder whose hands had picked the cocoa seeds, and whether the farmer was paid a ... Read More »

October 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille

By Rosemary Sullivan

On September 3, 1939, at 5 p.m., France officially entered the Second World War. The clubs and theatres shut down. Those who could fled. Civil defence called for a “blue-out” in Paris.Paris fell in May ... Read More »

October 23, 2006 | Filed under: History

The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal

By Afua Cooper

Afua Cooper, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, makes what seems to be an unfounded claim in the subtitle of her new book. The story of Marie-Joseph Angelique, a black slave who ... Read More »

October 17, 2006 | Filed under: History

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