Reviews

The City of Yes

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

Driven

By Betsy Struthers

In her latest book of poems, poet and mystery novelist Betsy Struthers is standing midstream, mid-career, mid-life, looking at both shores. These are poems of positioning: where to stand in relation, how to carry what ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium

By Heidi Harms, Joan Thomas, eds.

Now they tell me. For the last few years, visionaries have been caballing secretly and brewing recipes for the definitive millennium anthology. “Guaranteed fundable!” they all shrieked, and “Think of the market! Once in a ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

On the Threshold: Writing Toward 2000

By The Foxglove Collective, eds.

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The War at Home: An Intimate Portrait of Canada’s Poor

By Pat Capponi

Canadians like to brag about how the United Nations consistently rates Canada as the best place in the world to live. It’s selective memory: the U.N. also routinely chastises Canada for its treatment of aboriginal ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

When the Pig Goes to Market: How to Achieve Long-Term Investing Success

By David Cork with Susan Lightstone

If Adam Smith had written the Wealth of Nations as a dialogue between yuppies about what stocks to buy, When the Pig Goes to Market would have been the result. Smith was an immensely learned ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Good News About Careers: How You’ll Be Working in the Next Decade

By Barbara Moses

It’s no secret that the nature of work is changing. During the past decade in Canada there has been a major shift in the way we view work and career planning. With corporate downsizing, the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album

By Kevin McCabe, Alexandra Heilbron, eds.

In the 1930s, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote in her journal that her work would be forgotten in 60 years time. But the promise she extracted from her youngest son to never destroy her voluminous journals ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Prev 587 588589590 591....697 698 Next