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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,” wrote Oscar Wilde. That’s a distinction Jan Wong seems to have difficulty making. Wong is the Globe and Mail writer ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Trudeau Albums

By Mordecai Richler

However earnest the essays in Trudeau Albums might be in their occasional criticism of the late Pierre Trudeau, nothing can shake the reverent, hagiographic tone of this boxed coffee-table accessory. Organized into six albums, each ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask

By Jim Munroe

In his first novel, 26-year-old Jim Munroe has created a genuinely hip, young, and urban tale. Forget about all the other fiction that poses as slick and cool, forget the stylish authors that promise to ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Whose National Security: Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies

By Gary Kinsman, Dieter K. Buse, Mercedes Steedman, eds.

Last May’s revelation that Ottawa’s Human Resources Department had a supercomputer with personal information on over 30 million Canadians proved scandalous, yet it was no aberration. The collection of information on Canadians is as common ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: History

A Personal Calligraphy

By Mary Pratt

Artists are not always content to let their art speak for them. Some, like Newfoundland painter Mary Pratt, choose to stack prose up against their paintings, providing another piece to the puzzle that is their ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Canada: A People’s History (Volume One)

By Don Gillmor and Pierre Turgeon

The English writer Saki quipped that the people of Crete have always made more history than they can consume locally. In Canada, there are those who’ll argue that we go the other way, and that ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

This Is Our Writing

By T.F. Rigelhof

In This is Our Writing, T.F. Rigelhof, a teacher at Montreal’s Dawson College, evaluates the achievements of Mordecai Richler, Leonard Cohen, Mavis Gallant, and other Canadian prose writers. Some of these pizzazzy essays previously appeared ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Crack in the Teacup: The Life of an Old Woman Steeped in Stories

By Joan Bodger

Joan Bodger, author of the popular How the Heather Looks and several children’s books, grew up absorbing stories – first the yarns of her Welsh-born mother, then the world’s collected legends and folk tales. Accordingly, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the World

By Hugh Brody

A mix of anthropological text and memoir, The Other Side of Eden takes the reader into radical geographical and intellectual terrain. Drawing on his extensive experience living amongst “hunter-gatherer” societies – mainly in the Canadian ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America

By Victoria Freeman

Toronto-based author Victoria Freeman used to be like many Canadians: disconnected from her own history, ignorant about the extent to which her family has contributed to the dispossession of aboriginal people, yet saddled with an ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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