Reviews

The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, Volume 2: The Americas

The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: The Americas is the second volume in what has been called “the largest international co-operative undertaking in the history of cultural publishing.” This is not mere hyperbole. The project, ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Struggle and Hope: The Story of Chinese Canadians

By Paul Yee

In this book, Paul Yee, who holds an MA in history from the University of British Columbia, presents a detailed survey and engaging account of the history of the Chinese in Canada, from the impoverished ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Butterfly Lovers

By Charles Foran

As a travel writer and journalist, Charles Foran is drawn to embattled settings, places where politics and history impinge on the lives of ordinary people. Northern Ireland’s troubles were at the heart of The Last ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Miss O: A Life in Dance

By Betty Oliphant

Betty Oliphant’s life is the perfect topic for an autobiography. In 1947 she arrived in Canada from England on the arm of a low-ranking soldier and managed to muster enough funds to set up a ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of a Mi’kmaq Poet

By Rita Joe

Rita Joe is a Mi’kmaq woman, the first Mi’kmaq to be honoured for her poetry by the Nova Scotia Writers’ Federation (in 1978) and the first Mi’kmaq woman to be entered into the Order of ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Song of a Water Dragon

By Norman Track

A photographer and ethnographer, Norman Track goes to China in search of “endangered species, both people and plants.” He returns with photographs of rare irises and the manuscript of Song of a Water Dragon, the ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Li-Ka Shing: The Biography

By Anthony B. Chan

Li-Ka Shing is the story of one man’s rise from poverty to extraordinary wealth and power, the motivation for which was a deathbed promise to his dying father. Li’s father, an immigrant teacher from mainland ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Peter Mettler: Making the Invisible Visible

By Salome Pitschen and Annette Schönholzer, eds.

On the occasion of a Peter Mettler (Picture of Light) retrospective in Lucerne, Switzerland, what started out as “a small accompaniment” to the program quickly turned into a “scrapbook of sorts” with film notables including ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Biographical Index to Artists in Canada

By Evelyn de R. McMann, ed.

It’s not sex, but the human urge to make lists is basic. One of the first uses to which writing was put, 4,000 years ago in Assyria, was the compilation of cuneiform clay-tablet lists of ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Store Wars: Storekeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890-1939

By David Monod

In the time between the turn of the century and the start of World War II, a wave of modernization swept over Canada’s retailers. Chains like Eaton’s and Simpson’s brought cutthroat competition to the marketplace, ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: History

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