Major Themes of the Quran

The subject of Islam and Muslims has been of continuing interest to the West for a long time. Some historians observe that such an interest dates back to the founding of the religion. Indeed, Maxime ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics

By L. Carl Brown

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Trouble Sleeping

By Phil Hall

Phil Hall describes his latest work as a haiban, “a Japanese form of interwoven journey-prose and poetry,” which he uses to explore his troubled childhood in Rokeby, situated in northeastern Ontario. Trouble Sleeping evokes the ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Bare Plum of Winter Rain

By Patrick Lane

Patrick Lane’s newest collection of poetry filters the big questions – about life, death, and all that happens in between – through the soft light of nostalgia. Earnest and unadorned, Lane’s poems are misty-eyed meditations ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Ratz Are Nice (PSP)

By Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite

In Vancouver’s street punk culture, West Coast writer and performer Lawrence Braithwaite has found both the subject and the esthetic with which to further exploit the stylistic territory he began exploring in his 1994 novella ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Penelope’s Way

By Blanche Howard

At the age of 70, Penelope Stephens creates a list of life goals. On reviewing them, she decides to find the meaning of life rather than take up snowboarding. It is meant to be a ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I’m Frankie Sterne

By Dave Margoshes

At various times a jazz musician, freedom fighter, beatnik, and logger, Frankie Sterne drifts through mid-20th-century North America without making much of an impression, either on the people he encounters or on the reader.The book ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The First Time

By Joy Fielding

Joy Fielding’s new novel holds some surprises for her fans, as she moves from the genre of suspense to that of romance. In The First Time, the author of Don’t Cry Now and Missing Pieces ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Latitudes of Melt

By Joan Clark

Breathless plotting rules Joan Clark’s new novel, Latitudes of Melt. A fisherman finds a baby girl floating on an ice pan in the North Atlantic, and takes her home to raise with his family in ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Prodigy

By Nancy Huston

Prodigy, a new novella by Giller-nominated author Nancy Huston, is a strange, lush little tale. Told from the points of view of half a dozen characters, it recounts the symbiosis of three women: Lara, a ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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