Reviews

Frederick Street: Living and Dying on Canada’s Love Canal

Elizabeth May, head of the Sierra Club of Canada, and Maude Barlow, chair of the citizen’s lobby group The Council of Canadians, have written an informative and sometimes shocking account of government bungling in regulating, ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Drink the Sky

By Lesley Krueger

In Lesley Krueger’s Drink the Sky, part carefully wrought thriller, part eco-excursion into the heart of darkness, a young Canadian woman struggles with questions of identity against the backdrop of modern Brazil. While her environmentalist ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Contra/diction: New Queer Male Fiction

By Brett Josef Grubisic, ed.

At the end of the millennium, the gay world is divided about the future of homo life. Are gays going to continue to happily pair up, buy suburban homes filled with lovely furniture, and reap ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Out of Poverty: And into Something More Comfortable

By John Stackhouse

The title of John Stackhouse’s book on overseas development is an awkward one. His work is awkward, too: an uneasy mix of travel memoir, critique of global economic policies, and benevolent Western look at the ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Spectacular Death of the Medieval Cathars

By Stephen O’Shea

Making a modern reader care about a 13th-century heretical sect and its destruction is not an easy task, but journalist and translator Stephen O’Shea manages it effortlessly in his new book.The Cathars rose to prominence ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

One Track Mind: Photographic Essays on Western Railroading

By Ted Benson

For the past 30 years photographer Ted Benson has been documenting the beauty and travails of western railroads. From coal freighters in the Sierra Nevada to the final run of the California Zephyr, Benson and ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Boys Like Her: Transfictions

By Taste This Collective

You could call Boys Like Her a road novel – if road novels ever featured gender-bending tattooed dykes – mixed with a performance piece. Adapted from a live show that toured in 1995, the book ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Jump

By Marianne Ackerman

The coming of age novel is traditionally a story of adolescence, where a first experience of love, sex, freedom, or “the other” is the gateway to maturity. In later life, the absence or departure of ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Devil Out There

By Julie Keith

The connections between the linked stories of Julie Keith’s assured new collection at first seem tenuous, distracting even. Instead of responding to each tale on its own terms, we find ourselves, like small-town gossips, looking ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Night Train to Nykøbing

By Kristjana Gunnars

The strongest emotion that Kristjana Gunnars elicits with her latest novel, Night Train to Nykøbing, is that of longing. Throughout the novel, the unnamed female narrator waits, unsure of what she’s waiting for. Born in ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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