Reviews

The Retreat

The titles of two new plays – 1995 GG-winner Jason Sherman’s The Retreat and 1994 GG-winner Morris Panych’s Vigil – conjure up images of intimate, solemn religious rituals. Both plays are, however, nominally comedies, and ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Vigil

By Morris Panych

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Cut Your Losses!: A Smart Retailer’s Guide to Loss Prevention

By Keith O’Brien

Cut Your Losses! A Smart Retailer’s Guide to Loss is about prevention. According to author Keith O’Brien, the four main causes of retail loss are employees, customers, vendors, and errors. His book examines everything from ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

TVTV: The Debate

By Robert Anderson, Richard Gruneau, Paul Heyer, eds.

For anybody who watched TVTV: The Television Revolution, Moses Znaimer’s bombastic CBC documentary about the nature of the culture’s dominant medium, the real debating question is probably: why would anyone want to publish a book ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 1940s and 50s

By William Weintraub

Call my reaction post-referendum, but William Weintraub’s account of the life and times of Montreal during its heyday reads like a sweet dream. How wonderful to spend several hours in the company of Canada’s most ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Law School Book: Succeeding at Law School

By Allan C. Hutchinson and Pam Marshall

Law schools are sexy. This is the impression of most ambitious, straight-A undergrads who look to their next move with romance and greed. Weaned on L.A. Law and multiple rentals of The Paper Chase, these ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Somebody’s Daughter: Inside the Halifax-Toronto Pimping Ring

By Phonse Jessome

Beware the gritty social realist journalist who wants to take you There. There is generally a place you’d rather not be: a crack house, a prison, or a refugee camp. And it’s a rare writer ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler Decision

By Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell, Becki Ross eds.

Canadian feminists are consistently boxed into two opposing corners when it comes to the pornography debate, a.k.a. The Sex Wars. In the first, devoted to smut, licentious behaviour, and the pursuit of pleasure, we have ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne

By David P. Silcox

Art historian David Silcox’s biography of painter David Milne (1882–1953) has finally arrived, more than two decades after the University of Toronto art historian took on the mammoth project. Painting Place is the first of ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Design for the Future of Health Care

By Larry Bryan

In this era when for many of us restful sleep is often disturbed by nightmares of asteroids plowing into the earth in the near future, or by fears that the zit on our posterior is ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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