Reviews

The Follow

The Follow documents author Linda Spalding’s quest to be part of the drama to save orangutans in the rainforests of Borneo.Toronto-based Spalding, author of two previous books, uses controversial scientist Birute Galdikas to tell her ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Literary History of Alberta, Volume One: From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two

By George Melnyk

As a reference work, this pioneering look at Alberta’s literary tradition is well researched, well organized, and at times interesting. Veteran Alberta author George Melnyk does an admirable job of tying the various strands of ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

True North: The Yukon and Northwest Territories

By William R. Morrison

As part of Oxford University Press’s multi-volume illustrated history of Canada, these two books form an accessible introduction to the history of the areas covered. Aside from the similar format – each has more than ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: History

Forging the Prairie West

By John Herd Thompson

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: History

Arrow Through the Heart: The Life and Times of Crawford Gordon and the Avro Arrow

By Greig Stewart

In this engaging and revealing biography of Crawford Gordon, the charismatic and mercurial dynamo at the helm of the Avro Arrow project in the 1950s, Greig Stewart chronicles the life and demise of the infamous ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

All in the Family: A Cultural History of Family Life

By Suanne Kelman

“Family life is imperfect and difficult everywhere, all the time,” according to author Suanne Kelman. How much more humanely – and helpfully – government programs might operate if politicians trumpeting the demise of the Canadian ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Paradise, Piece by Piece

By Molly Peacock

It’s a pleasure to share one’s memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe – though we didn’t know it at the time. We know it now. Because it’s ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Smell It

By Hal Niedzviecki

I looked forward to Smell It, to a collection of short, short stories by the editor of the Toronto ’zine Broken Pencil, because Niedzviecki’s nonfiction is usually contemporary and trenchant in equal measures. I prepared ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Use Once and Destroy

By John L’Ecuyer, Michael Cho, illus.

I admit it. I was once an addict. While growing up, I became hooked on junkie lit – Jim Carroll’s The Basketball Diaries and Junkie by William S. Burroughs – anything that involved needles entering ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Guilty

By Sky Gilbert

Guilty, the first novel from the Toronto playwright and performer Sky Gilbert, explores the fate of Jack, a man so convinced that the world’s troubles are his fault that he’s willing to take the blame ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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