Reviews

First Nations? Second Thoughts

Tom Flanagan, a professor of history at the University of Calgary, says First Nations? Second Thoughts “is bound to provoke some hostile reactions.” Declaring one’s martyrdom early – in this case, in the book’s acknowledgements ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Native Peoples

We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Re-invention of Mass Culture

By Hal Niedzviecki

With contemporary culture in the hands of a dwindling number of media oligopolies, who’s to speak on the quixotic, overlooked, and largely misunderstood battle to create alternative voices? That would be underground culture maven Hal ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Critical Care: Canadian Nurses Speak for Change

By André Picard

Critical Care is a fascinating look at what nurses do today. In it André Picard interviews 45 nurses working in different specialties all across Canada, allowing them to report from the front lines of the ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

In the Blood: Battles to Succeed in Canada’s Family Businesses

By Gordon Pitts

Tolstoy’s chestnut about families – that all happy ones resemble each other, while each unhappy one is unique – is arguably even more accurate when applied to the bloody fights that can afflict family businesses. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Straw Man

By Daniel Poliquin

Beautifully translated by Wayne Grady, The Straw Man is a dazzling novel, mixing historical narrative (it begins in 1759) and magic realism. Poliquin, author of Black Squirrel and Obomsawin of Sioux Junction, weaves a tale ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Midnight Robber

By Nalo Hopkinson

Midnight Robber, the second book by Toronto speculative fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson, begins on Toussaint, a planet peopled by the descendants of Caribbean immigrants from Earth. The Midnight Robber is young Tan-tan’s favourite Carnival character, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Film Society

By Gilaine Mitchell

Thousands of women regularly haul themselves off to small book club meetings; some, like the ones in Film Society, opt for video-watching gatherings. This is a sort of cultural phenomenon. It’s also a resource: so ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Accidental Indies

By Robert Finley

The Accidental Indies, by Robert Finley, bears reading at least twice, although in description it sounds very straightforward. It is about Christopher Columbus and his first voyage toward what we now call the Western Hemisphere. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A Message for Mr. Lazarus

By Barbara Lambert

With the publication of A Message for Mr. Lazarus, Barbara Lambert joins the growing throng of first-rate female short story writers in Canada. In her debut collection – following a novel, The Allegra Series – ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Getting Lucky

By Matt Cohen

Critical Etiquette Rule # 96: Ignore the book’s author. Get rid of him.We became intimate with Matt Cohen last fall when he won the Governor General’s Award for Elizabeth and After. We saw him ridicule ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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