Reviews

A History of Celibacy: Experiments Through the Ages

Where I live – grassland southwest of quasi-urban Victoria – 4H-ers put it this way: “Owning a horse costs a lot of money, but so does teenage pregnancy.” Tight, logical, no bullshit. In livestock resides ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

By Wendy Shalit

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Surprise of My Life: An Autobiography

By Claire Drainie Taylor

Portrait of a Marriage might be a more apt title for this book, as Claire Drainie Taylor devotes over two-thirds of The Surprise of My Life: An Autobiography to her life with the actor and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia

By Christine Overall

Queen’s University philosophy professor Christine Overall lives her feminism inside the classroom and out.“Feminism,” she writes, “is the heart of who I am, not only as an academic, but as a citizen and an individual.” ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Random Excess: The Wild Ride of Michael Cowpland and Corel

By Ross Laver

In the rapidly changing world of computers, no Canadian company has made a bigger splash than Ottawa’s Corel Corporation. Led by Mitel founder Michael Cowpland, the company surged into the headlines as business reversals caused ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Blue Trust: The Author, the Lawyer, His Wife, and Her Money

By Stevie Cameron

Stevie Cameron does here what she is known for: she delves. This time it’s into the lives of Montreal tax lawyer Bruce Verchere and his wife Lynne – and a myriad of other characters drawn, ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

East and West

By Chris Patten

Newspapers in China called Chris Patten a criminal, a serpent, and a whore. The country’s politicians and diplomats alternately snubbed him, scolded him, and threatened him. He was second-guessed and undercut by traditionalists in Britain’s ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Journey to the Source of the Nile

By Christopher Ondaatje

Christopher Ondaatje, former stockbroker and investment banker, continues to be consumed by Africa. His earlier book, Leopard in the Afternoon, grew out of a trip there in the late 1980s in search of the leopard. ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Harmony: Photographic Journeys Across Our Cultural Boundaries

By National Movement for Harmony

More often than not, books that claim to cover Canada from coast-to-coast appear as thinly veiled tourism brochures or unity propaganda. Thankfully, Harmony: Photographic Journeys Across Our Cultural Boundaries is neither. Marrying the images of ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Last Stop, Paris: The Assassination of Mario Bachand and the Death of the FLQ

By Michael McLoughlin

The murder of a marginal, emotionally unstable, onetime member of the revolutionary separatist group the Front de Liberation du Québec (FLQ) in a Paris apartment in 1971 was the linchpin of a Canadian security operation ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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