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Tenor of Love

Like scratchy ancient recordings remastered and yellowed photographs restored, Mary di Michele’s Tenor of Love gives us an Enrico Caruso as bright and clear as prose can render him. Her Caruso comes alive as a ... Read More »

January 17, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Raymond and Hannah

By Stephen Marche

When asked in a recent interview about his legacy as a movie director, Woody Allen replied that his work, despite the praise and respect it has received, has had little direct influence on younger filmmakers. ... Read More »

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Full Speed Through the Morning Dark

By Matthew Tierney

Matthew Tierney’s Full Speed Through the Morning Dark is supposed to be a book of travel poems. In it we read stories of Tierney’s travels in Japan, China, Mongolia, Russia, and Ireland. The main problem ... Read More »

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Trout Point Lodge Cookbook: Creole Cuisine from New Orleans to Nova Scotia

By Daniel Abel, Charles Leary, and Vaughn Perret

This cookbook is based on recipes from the cooking school and restaurant at Trout Point Lodge in Nova Scotia. The authors’ goal is to use fresh, organic local ingredients while maintaining a connection with the ... Read More »

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

By Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer at The New Yorker, made a name for himself with his bestseller, The Tipping Point, which looked at how small trends can suddenly and unexpectedly morph into mass phenomena. Gladwell’s ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

An Unauthorized Biography of the World: Oral History on the Front Lines

By Michael Riordon

An Unauthorized Biography of the World is a chronicle of that long, varied front line of communities using oral history to fight against marginalization and oppression, to give themselves a voice in the face of ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Battle of the St. Lawrence: The Second World War in Canada

By Nathan M. Greenfield

The Second World War Battle of the St. Lawrence between German U-boats and a primarily Canadian air force and navy has been not so much forgotten as ignored. The 24 ships sunk in the quarter-million-square-mile ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq

By Paul William Roberts

Only a few pages into this searing narrative, Paul William Roberts recounts the sudden destruction of his friend’s family home. With the “enormous, crunchy crash” still ringing in our ears, Roberts guides us into a ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

Future Tense: The Coming World Order

By Gwynne Dyer

The growing space on bookstore shelves dedicated to events related to 9/11, Bush administration malfeasance, and the war in Iraq will benefit from Gwynne Dyer’s Future Tense, a good primer for the political novice gingerly ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

Red Line, Blue Line, Bottom Line: How Push Came to Shove Between the National Hockey League and Its Players

By Marc Edge

With the cancellation of the 2004-2005 NHL season looking like a done deal, hockey fans are beginning to realize that this may turn out to be the ugliest and longest labour dispute in the history ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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