Reviews

Nothing Sacred: The Many Lives and Betrayals of Albert Walker

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

Bodies in Motion: A Matthew Prior Mystery

By Anthony Quogan

In pseudonymous Toronto mystery writer Anthony Quogan’s Bodies in Motion, recurring character Matthew Prior is commissioned to adapt Hitchcock’s train thriller The Lady Vanishes for a modern-day American audience. By way of research, he is ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Clear: A Contemporary Canadian Poetry Anthology

By Allan Forrie, Patrick O’Rourke, Glen Sorestad, eds.

For decades, Saskatchewan-based Thistledown Press has been publishing poetry collections by well-known and lesser-known Canadian writers. The editors of In the Clear have exploited the press’s archival wealth to compile a large anthology whose purpose ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Take Charge Computing for Teens and Parents

By Pam Dixon

IDG Books has discreetly minimized the Dummies logo on its new kids-and-parents computing series, packaging this set as “a cool reference for the whole family.” The three guides, covering software for kids aged 2-12, web ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The World Wide Web for Kids and Parents

By Viraf Mohta

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Great Software for Kids and Parents

By Cathy Miranker and Alison Elliot

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Between the Stillness and the Grove

By Erika de Vasconcelos

Erika de Vasconcelos’s second novel is more ambitious in scope than her acclaimed debut. Where My Darling Dead Ones concerned itself with the personal histories of a family of women, Between the Stillness and the ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

UN

By Dennis Lee

Dennis Lee’s new poetry collection, UN, is no book for children. Unless, that is, you think children should be prepared for 21st-century adulthood with frank discussions of cultural brain-death and planetary extinction. These are staggering ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

It Pays to Play

By Peter White

In the postmodern tradition of taking the most irreverent “cultural bottom feeders” and elevating them to the lofty heights of intellectual discourse, curator and writer Peter White, scores with It Pays to Play, an exhibition ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Laughs: Funny Stories Selected by Claire Mackay

By Claire Mackay

Is there a distinctively Canadian sense of humour? From reading Laughs, Claire Mackay’s anthology of funny stories, poems, and riddles by Canadian authors, one has to conclude there isn’t. The range of humour is broad ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

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