Reviews

The Great Big Book of Guys: Alphabetical Encounters with Men

The central conceit of The Great Big Book of Guys is simple. In chapters with such titles as “Amigos,” “Bad Boys,” and “Codgers,” noted playwright and CBC broadcaster Erika Ritter uses each letter of the ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: The Story of Canada’s Secret War

By Carol Off

In one day in September 1993, in the process of aggressively shoring up the crumbling UN peacekeeping mission in Croatia, Canadian soldiers killed as many as 27 Croat soldiers in a series of firefights. Letting ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: History

Walk To New York: A Journey Out of the Wilds of Canada

By Charles Wilkins

"Because I felt like it” – that’s the reason journalist Charles Wilkins most often gave for deciding to walk from Thunder Bay in northern Ontario to New York City. But since the walk was preceded ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation

By Chris Turner

Anyone who’s ever watched an episode of The Simpsons knows that the long-running cartoon is topical, wickedly satirical, subversive, laugh-out-loud hilarious, and has oodles of street cred among disaffected youth who came of age in ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982-2004

By Margaret Atwood

For Moving Targets, her second collection of reviews, journalism, and occasional pieces, Margaret Atwood has elected to follow a strictly chronological organizing format. While this may seem simplistic at first glance, ultimately this approach unifies ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

It’s the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil, and the Fight for the Planet

By Linda McQuaig

From her perch as one of Canada’s best-known muckraking journalists, Linda McQuaig has tackled her biggest topic to date: the future of the planet. The author of such well-received political critiques as Shooting the Hippo ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power

By Peter C. Newman

For such an ardent Canadian nationalist, Peter C. Newman’s life conforms in many respects to the clichéd image of the American dream. A poor immigrant boy arrives on these shores with nothing but a dream. ... Read More »

October 25, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Museum Called Canada: 25 Rooms of Wonder

By Charlotte Gray

Photographic reproductions are common and precise enough these days to provoke disappointment when one finally stands amidst a jostling throng of tourists viewing the real Mona Lisa through several centimetres of bulletproof glass. The upside ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: History

All That Matters

By Wayson Choy

All That Matters is Wayson Choy’s follow-up to his acclaimed first novel, The Jade Peony; both novels concern the Chens, a family caught up in the Chinese diaspora of the 1930s and ’40s.The Jade Peony ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Learning to Swim

By Larry Lynch

Learning to Swim, the first collection from New Brunswick author Larry Lynch, presents seven stories that range in style from straightforward narrative to magic realism-tinged metafiction. It’s a mix that is always interesting, but not ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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