Reviews

The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch

By Elizabeth Prelinger and Michael Parke-Taylor with Peter Schjeldahl

It’s enough to make you scream, the way some curators can’t see the forest for the trees, or the message for the medium. The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch is no exception. In the life ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Greed: Investment Fraud in Canada and Around the Globe

By Deborah Thompson

In this review of well-known fraud cases from the last two decades, Toronto business writer Deborah Thompson covers a few boiler rooms from which assets were peddled to the unwary; a Winnipeg grain brokerage scandal; ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Hard Core Roadshow

By Noel S. Baker

When Toronto screenwriter Noel Baker first began work for director Bruce McDonald on his film adaptation of the Michael Turner novel Hard Core Logo, he anticipated his diary might someday make a fine book. Knowing ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Butterfly Customer: Capturing the Loyalty of Today’s Elusive Consumer

By Susan M. O’Dell and Joan A. Pajunen

Toronto retail consultants Joan Pajunen and Susan O’Dell believe that customers’ loyalty to retailers has vanished. The authors identify both increased consumer awareness and diminished management ability for this trend. The Butterfly Customer deals with the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War

By Jonathan F. Vance

In April of 1926, during a debate in the House of Commons on that year’s budget, an MP named G.B. Nicholson remarked that Canada’s 60,000 First World War dead had been sacrificed for high, heroic ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Chinese Opera: Images and Stories

By Siu Wang-Ngai with Peter Lovrick

Just in time to celebrate Canada’s Year of the Asia Pacific comes the publication of a comprehensive book celebrating one of the world’s oldest theatrical treasures. Written by the award-winning Hong Kong photographer Siu Wang-Ngai ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey

By Geoff Pevere and Greig Dymond

As a showcase of 20th-century Canadiana, Mondo Canuck is an unqualified success. By Canadian publishing standards, though, it may just be too much fun for its flannel. Through all of its short chapters – four-pagers ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Instruments of Darkness

By Nancy Huston

Nancy Huston’s most recent English-language novel, an intriguing counterpoint of musical and religious imagery, tells the story of a successful middle-aged novelist named Nadia and her efforts to exorcise the trauma of her disturbing family ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Quality of Light

By Richard Wagamese

In his second novel, Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese, a National Newspaper Award-winning journalist before his turn to fiction, creates a metaphor for Canada’s treatment of its aboriginal inhabitants. A Quality of Light offers a complicated ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hockey Dreams: Memories of a Man Who Couldn’t Play

By David Adams Richards

For a long time now, I’ve fretted over the inability of Canadians to develop a worthwhile literature of hockey. Occasionally, a good hockey book appears, of course, but we’ve never come close to either a ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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