Reviews

Cyberlaw: What You Need to Know About Doing Business Online

By David Johnston, Sunny Handa and Charles Morgan

The greatest irony of the “information age” is that its primary delivery vehicle, the Internet, was conceived by the U.S. Defense Department as a top secret Cold War communication device. Now it is the most ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

In Control: Making the Most of the Genetic Test for Breast Cancer

By Neil Sharpe

The breast cancer susceptibility genes BRAC1 and BRAC2 flag a risk for developing breast cancer, especially before the age of 50. Since they were mapped in 1990, it is possible to determine which healthy women ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era

By Christopher Dewdney

This is a cult book in the making. Author Christopher Dewdney, a TV media pundit and academic with the McLuhan Institute in Toronto, describes the way people are being changed by technology, concluding that the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Robert Lepage: Connecting Flights

By Robert Lepage in conversation with Rémy Charest

In Connecting Flights, Quebec actor, director, and theatre guru Robert Lepage connects with his work, his influences, his audiences – and, of course, with Quebec arts journalist Rémy Charest. Charest, through countless interviews with Lepage ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Warrior’s Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

By Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff’s follow-up to his award-winning Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism uses potent prose to share some of his brilliant insights. In The Warrior’s Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience, Ignatieff ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: History

Who Killed Canadian History?

By J.L. Granatstein

J.L. Granatstein has written over 45 history texts and is one of Canada’s most widely read historians. In Who Killed Canadian History? he turns his attention to the current sad state of his discipline.Granatstein’s main ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Gentle Anarchist: A Life of George Woodcock

By Douglas Fetherling

George Woodcock, prolific writer, founding editor of Canadian Literature, and philanthropist, is a promising biographical subject. Not only is he complex, secretive, and full of contradictions but he leaves his autobiographies and rich archival materials ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Someplace to Be Flying

By Charles de Lint

If you had to put a label on this latest Charles de Lint novel, science fiction would come the closest. But it’s not the sci-fi stuff we’re used to, where the familiar world is swept ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flesh and Gold

By Phyllis Gotlieb

Toronto author Phyllis Gotlieb has for decades been producing internationally successful novels, which, I think it’s safe to say, the majority of well-read Canadians have never heard of, let alone read. Lacking the mainstream crossover ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Her Smoke Rose up

By James R. Wallen

If Her Smoke Rose Up were a face, it would be pierced; if it were a film (rather than a novel about one), it would feature gratuitous sex and glamourized violence. So what is there ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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