Reviews

★ Getting Back to Work: The Ultimate Jobseeker’s Guide for Canadians Over 45

Nearly all the guidebooks currently available to Canadians looking for work begin with the same little story: Once upon a time, there was a happy and prosperous society. People had no difficulty finding jobs, and ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Résumés That Get Jobs

By Jean Reed

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Zero Tolerance

By Peter C. Emberley

In the world of Peter Emberley, there are cannons to the left and cannons to the right, and they are firing like mad on Canada’s universities. Speech codes, dwindling government funding, companies putting their corporate ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Telling My Love Lies

By Keath Fraser

Telling My Love Lies, Vancouver writer Keath Fraser’s follow-up to his award-winning first novel, Popular Anatomy (1995), begins with a tidy conceit: the members of a reading club gone stale try to breathe new life ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Eleventh Hour: Poems for the New Millennium

By Kildare Dobbs

One of the recurring themes for public discussion in the latter years of the 1990s has been the end of the century, made particularly significant because it harbingers the end of one millennium and the ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Counting Out the Millennium: Poems by John Oughton

By John Oughton

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ For a Modest God

By Eric Ormsby

Eric Ormsby, born in Atlanta, is a professor of Near Eastern Studies at McGill University, and his poetry has been published in major American and Canadian literary periodicals, and is included in the current Norton ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

If I Were Me

By Clark Blaise

If I were Lander – guilt-ridden main character, failed father and husband, famous neurolinguist – I might be less forgiving of myself. So why does author Clark Blaise allow his character to find so much ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lydia Thrippe! A Critic’s Diary Followed by the Lydiad

By Daniel Sloate

At university I was given a secondhand copy of a literary anthology, with a free form novel-in-progress attached. The book had been owned by a celebrated Upper Canada College academic, who had scribbled thousands of ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Hand in the Water: The Many Lies of Albert Walker

By Bill Schiller

The story of Albert Walker has all the elements of a lurid mystery: high finance, international fugitives, incest, and finally, murder. Walker fled to England from Canada in 1990, taking with him his 15-year-old daughter, ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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