Reviews

Miller’s Bolt: A Modern Business Parable

Miller’s Bolt, a business allegory by Toronto writer Thomas Stirr, purports to be a “creative journey” of self-improvement and personal management that will lead to success in today’s corporate world. This fictional story traces the ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

A Woman of Influence: Evlyn Fenwick Farris

By Sylvie McClean

Biographer Sylvie McClean describes her subject’s papers as a small addition to the impressive archive of her husband, J. Wallace de Becque Farris, former attorney general of British Columbia and a member of the Senate. ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Half Man Half Beast: Making a Life in Canadian Theatre

By Maurice Podbrey

Books on Canadian theatre are scarce enough that any addition to our slim library is a welcome one. Maurice Podbrey’s as-told-to memoir of starting and running Montreal’s Centaur Theatre, however, outstays its welcome depressingly soon, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Heroes of the Game: A History of the Grey Cup

By Stephen Thiele

There are two things a reader can expect from good non-fiction. The first is fine, or at least entertaining, writing. The words should flow and there should be an occasional turn of phrase to share ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Toronto Discovered

By Robert Fulford

Newcomers to Toronto pick up on three things very quickly: only tourists and newscasters enunciate the final syllable – the locals say something much closer to “Tronno”; the flashing green traffic light definitely does not ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Secret Toronto: The Unique Guidebook to Toronto’s Hidden Sites, Sounds, & Tastes

By Scott Mitchell, photographs by Linda Rutenberg

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Beat Toronto

By Christina Temple and David Christian

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Hip Guide Toronto

By Karen von Hahn

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Toronto Singles Guide

By Leanne Delap and Serena French

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ Tightrope Passage: Along the Refugee Route to Canada

By Ivo Moravec

Tightrope Passage is the first book of Ivo Moravec’s second writing career. His first was as a songwriter and children’s writer in his native Czechoslovakia. In 1983, worn down by the restrictions on his artistic ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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