Reviews

Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution

At a time when it seems the women’s movement in Canada has all but evaporated, along comes a book to remind us what great strides this country’s feminists achieved in the latter part of the ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies

Bittergirl: Getting Over Getting Dumped

By Annabel Griffiths, Alison Lawrence, and Mary Francis Moore

It’s supposed to be a romantic evening. You buy wine. You light a few candles. You even shave your legs. Unfortunately your husband/boyfriend/boytoy has other ideas. In between arugula and apple pie, he dumps you ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Reference

★ I am a red dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter

By Anna Camilleri

Anna Camilleri is more than a red dress. The Toronto native is a writer, spoken-word artist, anthologist, and curator who has performed across Canada and the U.S. Camilleri’s I am a red dress is a ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World’s Food Crises

By Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon, eds.

Feeding the Future, the second collection of thematically linked essays edited by Investeco Capital president Andrew Heintzman and CBC personality and writer Evan Solomon (the two were also co-founders of Shift magazine), is subtitled From ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Canadians in the Civil War

By Claire Hoy

The role of Canada and Canadians in the American Civil War has long deserved a higher profile in the historical literature. Veteran journalist and author Claire Hoy’s new book is an attempt to rectify that.Between ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: History

Public Life, Private Tragedy

By Steve Paikin

John P. Robarts: Ontario premier from 1961-1971, dedicated modernizer of the province’s schools and universities, creator of its community college system. The University of Toronto’s Robarts Library – one of the most daunting such edifices ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Rocco Perri: The Story of Canada’s Most Notorious Bootlegger

By Antonio Nicaso

Lovers of the true-crime genre will appreciate this new biography of one of Canada’s most feared gangsters for two reasons. The first is that the book’s author, Antonio Nicaso, is widely regarded as Canada’s leading ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Whore

By Nelly Arcan, Bruce Benderson, trans.

In the late 1970s, just as fame was showing her the door, author Xaviera Hollander – AKA The Happy Hooker – made an unhappy observation: “Everybody wants to know where we bad girls come from, ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Program

By Hal Niedzviecki

Hal Niedzviecki: founding editor of Broken Pencil magazine, zine culture elder statesman, literary novelist, pop-culture analyst. Is it possible that the 34-year-old Niedzviecki (who in the past has collaborated with Steve Mann, the eccentric U ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Seduction

By Catherine Gildiner

Admirers of Catherine Gildiner’s first book, the memoir Too Close to the Falls, will probably smile as they read the opening sentence of her first novel, Seduction. “It’s real embarrassing to admit, but I forget ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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