Reviews

The Book of Love Letters: Canadian Kinship, Friendship, and Romance

Paul and Audrey Grescoe’s lively and emotional new collection, The Book of Love Letters, is like a big box of the very best chocolate. The letters are rich with emotion and wit, but they should ... Read More »

February 14, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies

Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas

By Gary Geddes

Every year, thousands of hours are spent earnestly debating whether Christopher Columbus was a brave explorer or a genocidal imperialist. Vancouver poet, writer, and academic Gary Geddes’ new book brings to a mainstream audience a ... Read More »

February 7, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist

By Jessica Warner

Toronto-based academic and writer Jessica Warner has written a fine story about an eccentric subject: an unsuccessful anti-British insurgent during the American Revolution. John Aitken, aka John the Painter, was born the son of a ... Read More »

January 24, 2005 | Filed under: History

It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journals of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919

By Bruce Cane

The Western Front of the First World War consumed individuality as thoroughly as it consumed individuals. As Canadians, our folk-memory of the war is of the quick and the dead indistinguishable from the mud. In ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

The Greek for Love: A Memoir of Corfu

By James Chatto

There probably aren’t many city dwellers who haven’t considered – perhaps while sitting in traffic or being accosted by an aggressive panhandler – pitching it all and going to live in the country. Then they ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Possible Past

By Aislinn Hunter

Poetry should be a clear expression of mixed feelings, as W.H. Auden said. Aislinn Hunter’s latest collection follows that theory. In The Possible Past, Hunter touches on complex and often contradictory ideas and emotions often ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Barilko: Without a Trace

By Kevin Shea

Does a hockey player who scored just 26 goals in five NHL seasons really deserve a full-length biography? If that player is Bill Barilko, the answer is a resounding yes. That’s because, as most NHL ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

By Dan Bortolotti

It would be difficult to write a dull book about Doctors Without Borders, the renowned international medical relief organization that won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Peace. Hope in Hell doesn’t disappoint, providing many a ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

★ A Stain upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming

By Stephen Hume et al

Purchasing a steady supply of fresh and canned fish is a privilege to which most inland Canadians have never given a second thought. They take it for granted at their peril, as this startling new ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ This Terrible Business Has Been Very Good to Me

By Norman Jewison

Anyone who has enjoyed watching movies during the last 40-plus years should read this book. It’s that simple. In This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me, veteran Canadian director Norman Jewison details his life ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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