Reviews

★ Lost Classics

You can never have too many books. I remember Diane Schoemperlen saying that in an interview, though I can’t recall the context. The interviewer, I’m guessing, was in Schoemperlen’s house, and maybe in a moment ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Jamie Kennedy’s Seasons

By Jamie Kennedy

Jamie Kennedy is certainly one of Canada’s most famous chefs, and arguably one of the most important too. In the 1980s, at the Toronto restaurant Scaramouche, he and Michael Stadtländer functioned as the harbingers of ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Our Century: The Canadian Journey in the Twentieth Century

By Robert Bothwell and J.L. Granatstein

Robert Bothwell, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, and J.L. Granatstein, the former director of the Canadian War Museum, are both respected authors of Canadian history books. In Our Century, they combine ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

By Jack Layton

Over the past five years, poll after poll has placed solving homelessness near the top of Canadians’ priorities. As if to reflect that concern, a growing number of books on poverty from high-profile publishers has ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate

By Alberto Manguel

Four months of eyeballing slides at 8:30 a.m. in “Introduction to Visual Perception” changed everything. The instructor was a draft dodger with impossible sideburns, and he showed us how to read the stories inside pictures. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ Beatrice Chancy

By George Elliott Clarke

Beatrice Chancy defies categorization. On the surface, it’s an adaptation of a well-known murder story from 16th-century Rome. In 1598, a young woman named Beatrice Cenci killed her father after he raped her. Subsequently, her ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Kaddish for My Father

By Libby Scheier

Libby Scheier’s Kaddish for My Father brings together new and selected material from earlier collections. The first half of the volume includes new poetry and prose commemorating Scheier’s father, who died in 1997, and exploring ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The City of Yes

By Peter Oliva

Peter Oliva’s second novel, The City of Yes, is not so much one story as it is several individual tales, each threading seamlessly through the others in a meditation on storytelling itself. Set mainly in ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fits Like a Rubber Dress

By Roxane Ward

Roxane Ward’s debut novel has the trappings of a provocative story – there’s the teasing title and tastefully erotic cover – but the reality of this tale of one woman’s foray into Toronto’s underground is ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Jane

By Judy MacDonald

Judy MacDonald is such a flawless mimic of teenaged voices that this novel feels channelled, as if a group of ghostly high school students had started fooling around with a tape recorder in someone’s bedroom, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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