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Whose Brave New World?: The Information Highway and the New Economy

People are being replaced by computers in many Canadian industries, including banking, oil refining, pulp and paper, and telecommunications. And where they remain, they are becoming hand servants, or “human post-it notes” as Heather Menzies ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs

By George Fetherling, ed.

George Fetherling argues in his surprisingly cantankerous preface to The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs that Canadians are psychologically predisposed to dealing imaginatively with their pasts. Compared with the traditional American emphasis of “lighting out ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

All Families Are Psychotic

By Douglas Coupland

With All Families Are Psychotic author Douglas Coupland has completed a seven-novel mission: he’s finally moved his characters out of the rumpus room.Rumpus rooms have always figured prominently in Coupland’s universe of protracted, distracted youngishness. ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Losing It

By Alan Cumyn

Bob Sterling is the Edgar Allen Poe specialist at a Canadian university. He dumped his first wife for front-row student Julia, and now that marriage, too, is adrift because Bob lusts for yet another student, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mad Dog

By Kelly Watt

The plot of Mad Dog, Kelly Watt’s first novel, seems designed to be a quick pitch: it is 1964, and 14-year-old Sheryl-Anne is living with her uncle Fergus on his apple orchard, deep in the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Chronoliths

By Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson has a knack for imagining unusual paradigm disruptions on a global scale. In Darwinia, one half of the planet suddenly “reverts” to a prehistoric state that has never existed; in his latest ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Where She Was Standing

By Maggie Helwig

Maggie Helwig is perhaps best known for her highly visual poetry, clear-eyed lyrics that celebrate the world’s beauty even as they lament its suffering. Where She Was Standing, Helwig’s first novel, has all the best ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

When Alice Lay Down with Peter

By Margaret Sweatman

Author Margaret Sweatman explains that the writing of her third novel, When Alice Lay Down with Peter, was “compelled by the idea that history is constantly present. I wrote it in a crow’s nest, a ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

River Thieves

By Michael Crummey

The scene is Newfoundland’s desolate north shore about 200 years ago. European settlement is well under way and the Beothuk have entered into their twilight on this Earth. In an isolated outpost household, a domestic ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mere

By Esta Spalding and Linda Spalding

Thirteen-year-old Mere Holmes has spent almost all her life on board the Persephone, sailing through the waters of the Great Lakes between Ontario and New York State with her mother, Faye, and Mark, 16, who ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Whose Brave New World?: The Information Highway and the New Economy

The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs

All Families Are Psychotic

Losing It

Mad Dog

The Chronoliths

Where She Was Standing

When Alice Lay Down with Peter

River Thieves

Mere

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