Reviews

★ Lady of Mazes

That cracking sound you hear 50 pages or so into Lady of Mazes, the new science fiction novel from Toronto writer Karl Schroeder? No, that’s not the sound of a fictional world coming to an ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Children of the Day

By Sandra Birdsell

The day of the title is June 14 (two days before Bloomsday, as it happens), 1953. But through memory, family stories, a snatch of song, even a single word – “Ja” – Sandra Birdsell expands ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Chi

By Mary Gordon

On November 14, 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk was swarmed and beaten under a bridge on Vancouver Island by a group of predominantly young girls. That the event was horrific and shocking is uncontested. That the ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Reference

Standing Together: Women Speak Out About Violence and Abuse

By Linda Goyette, ed.

This collection of stories and poems contains firsthand accounts from women – for the most part from Alberta – who have suffered physical, psychological, and/or sexual abuse from male partners, friends, family members, lovers, and ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Beyond the Promised Land: The Movement and the Myth

By David F. Noble

The ancient Greeks felt the need to poison Socrates for his unorthodox philosophical beliefs. We don’t go quite that far any more, but being a gadfly still has its disadvantages. Just ask David F. Noble.The ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: History

Woolf in Ceylon: An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of Leonard Woolf 1904-1911

By Christopher Ondaatje

Like all excellent travel literature, Christopher Ondaatje’s Woolf in Ceylon provides a multifaceted approach to the island that was once Ceylon and became Sri Lanka in 1972. Ondaatje interweaves biography and literary criticism of Leonard ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Golden Cell: Gene Therapy, Stem Cells, and the Quest for the Next Great Medical Breakthrough

By Karen van Kampen

While many North Americans are familiar with such subjects as stem cell research and regenerative medicine from parsing the odd newspaper article, it is probably safe to say that the vast majority of us are ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Susur: A Culinary Life

By Susur Lee with Jacob Richler

Susur Lee has long been regarded one of the master artists of haute cuisine. This much-deserved status is the result of his highly individualistic vision, which elevates Chinese/French fusion cooking into rarefied art. Thus the ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Lion, the Fox & the Eagle: A Story of Generals and Justice in Rwanda and Yugoslavia

By Carol Off

The peacekeeper has become a Canadian icon, a source of national pride common enough to turn up in jingoistic beer commercials. But those who read Carol Off’s new book may wonder just what there is ... Read More »

November 11, 2005 | Filed under: History

Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives

By Robert Thacker

How does Alice Munro do it? She’s told us how: “I sit in a corner of the chesterfield and stare at the wall, and I keep getting it and getting it, and when I’ve got ... Read More »

November 7, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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