Reviews

★ All Together Now: Connected Communities: How They Will Revolutionize the Way You Live, Work, and Play

It’s one of the central paradoxes of Internet culture. In the medium’s earliest, pre- e-commerce days, the vast majority of activity on the Net was social and community oriented. The new medium was supposed to ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Whispering in Shadows

By Jeannette Armstrong

Best known for the novel Slash and the poetry collection Breath Tracks, Okanagan writer Jeannette Armstrong combines genres in her new novel to bring readers into the world of Penny Jackson, a painter, activist, and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Just for Comfort

By Ralph Osborne

Just for Comfort is a Canadian counter-culture road movie set to the page: Goin’ Down the Road meets Thelma and Louise. First-time novelist Ralph Osborne has written a gentle, comic tale of addiction and violence ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Fall of Gravity

By Leon Rooke

Don’t suspend disbelief. Don’t arrest it, curtail it, or unfrock it. Disbelief is in the fine print scratched at the bottom of Leon Rooke’s literary contract. What the meta-narrator of The Fall of Gravity calls ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Purple for Sky

By Carol Bruneau

Imagine that you’re Lindy Hammond, a 63-year-old single woman in a depressed rural hamlet, looking after a wandering, 90-year-old aunt and running a seedy convenience store: what are your chances of finally finding love and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Robbiestime

By Don Dickinson

Robbiestime has some of the same characters who appeared in Don Dickinson’s first book, the short-story collection Fighting the Upstream. It also has some of that book’s old-fashioned Canadian qualities, such as a preoccupation with ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bathory

By Moynan King

Elizabeth Bathory, a cult favourite in the world of vampire films, was a 17th-century Hungarian countess, infamous for her obsession with virgin blood. In Bathory, Toronto playwright Moynan King reimagines the last years of Bathory’s ... Read More »

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

That Summer

By David French

David French is one of Canada’s most acclaimed playwrights and an accomplished explorer of the power of memory. Since 1972, generations of his fictional Mercer family, transplanted from Coley’s Point in Newfoundland to Toronto, have ... Read More »

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

Live Evil: A Homage to Miles Davis

By Richard Stevenson

Poet George Bowering asked the question: “(How to) come out of/ literature, right into the roar/ of that belly’s horn…” Live Evil is Richard Stevenson’s response: a book-length poetic suite based on the life and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy

By Al Purdy

“This is my last book,” Al Purdy writes in his preface to Beyond Remembering, and with that simple phrase the reader is reminded of what was lost with Purdy’s death in April. Every word of ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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