Everything I Needed to Know About Business I Learned from a Canadian

Entrepreneurs and authors Leonard Brody and David Raffa want you to know: Canadians are more entrepreneurial than they think they are. Using the success stories of 16 Canadians from diverse fields – everything from cosmetics to ... Read More »

August 10, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Wreckage

By Michael Crummey

The wreckage in the title of Michael Crummey’s new novel is that of the tsunami which struck Newfoundland in 1929, wiping out in an instant several outport communities. Aloysius Furey’s parents were swept away, and ... Read More »

August 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Martyr’s Oath: The Apprenticeship of an Al Qaeda Terrorist

By Stewart Bell

A few years back, Malcolm Gladwell wrote about suicide in the Pacific islands of Micronesia as a kind of phenomenon that “tipped” and became an epidemic. A few kids killed themselves. Then a few more. ... Read More »

August 2, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys

By Candace Savage

With her new book, Crows, Saskatoon-based nature writer and historian Candace Savage turns her attention again to the world of crows and their corvine cousins (including magpies, jackdaws, and ravens). It’s territory she has mined ... Read More »

July 18, 2005 | Filed under: History

Three Views of Crystal Water

By Katherine Govier

Katherine Govier’s new novel is a sprawling, richly researched historical novel, a chronicle of love and obsession in the 19th-century tradition of the grand pursuit. As the backdrop to this luminous, multilayered tale, the sea ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tattycoram

By Audrey Thomas

When Wayne Johnston released The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, a few commentators took him to task for creating a fictional inner life for the very real Joey Smallwood and (in the opinion of some of ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cul-de-sac

By Daniel MacIvor

In his latest play, Cul-de-sac, playwright and performer Daniel MacIvor hits the ground running in the shape of a character named Leonard. Leonard lives in one of the six houses neatly tucked away in a ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences

By Jan Zwicky

On the heels of a double Governor General’s Award nomination in 2004 (for non-fiction and poetry), Jan Zwicky gives us her sixth collection of poems. The title might lead one to expect in this book ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

The Sutler

By Michael Kenyon

B.C. writer Michael Kenyon is the author of three books of fiction. The Sutler is his second collection of poems, but his first work in verse, A Rack of Lamb is a book of prose ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Were the Bees

By Andy Weaver

From traditional formal poetry to free verse, from the lyrical pieces to clever turns of phrase, from experimental verse to plainspoken frankness, there is something to satisfy all tastes in Were the Bees, the debut ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

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