Reviews

Carry Tiger to Mountain: The Tao of Activism and Leadership

One of the key tricks to writing titles in the inspirational/self-help category is to cross the bridge from one’s own sense of fulfillment at having discovered something unique to developing a language that allows outsiders ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Norval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist

By Greg A. Hill, ed.

Published in conjunction with the first solo exhibition of work by a native artist at the National Gallery of Canada, Norval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist provides readers with a stunning retrospective of the Anishnaabe artist’s works ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust

By Heather Pringle

The Nazi Holocaust remains the nadir of human activity on this planet, a Dead Sea of unthinking bestiality and unmitigated evil. Why is it unlike all the other monstrous flowerings of evil that ought to ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: History

Indigenous Beasts

By Nathan Sellyn

Yet another debut collection by a young male author destined to be labelled “edgy,” Nathan Sellyn’s Indigenous Beasts features what is becoming a typical cast of characters for fiction of this ilk: dealers, users, ravers, ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

David Suzuki: The Autobiography

By David Suzuki

Autobiography is inherently humanizing, breeding a familiarity between reader and author like no other kind of book. The genre gives writers and celebrities the opportunity to reflect on their careers and, for many, to write ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Colour of Justice: Policing Race in Canada

By David M. Tanovich

Over the past few decades, the popular lexicon describing police behaviour has expanded to include a number of unique, though unofficial, arrestable offences, including Driving While Black (DWB) and Travelling While Arab (TWA). Officially, such ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

By Bernice Eisenstein

Bernice Eisenstein grew up in Toronto as a self-confessed addict of the Holocaust. In her parents’ basement rec room, as her family viewed the Adolf Eichmann trial on television, she sensed the Holocaust’s power in ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Madame Zee

By Pearl Luke

The real-life story of the mysterious Madame Zee receives an intriguing treatment in this novel by Pearl Luke. What is curious is that the fictionalized details are almost more compelling than the actual facts, which ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

jPod

By Douglas Coupland

Like its 1995 predecessor, Microserfs, Douglas Coupland’s latest foray into the annals of extreme contemporaneousness delves into the world of a group of young programmers, this time substituting a Vancouver-based video-game design company for Microsoft. ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Widdershins

By Charles de Lint

With Widdershins, Ottawa writer Charles de Lint returns to the fictional city of Newford for what may be a world-altering showdown between the ancient North American immortals and spirits – based on First Nations tradition ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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