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
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
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
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
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
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
Like an extremely long letter from a dear old uncle, this Second World War memoir contains some genuinely interesting anecdotes, but readers have to slog through an overwhelming number of incidental and forgettable details to ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
At what point, if ever, do events recalled from memory become history? And how accurate is that history and whose story does it tell? Once that story is told, perhaps with artful intervention to improve ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Reaching back across 23 years into a windowless concrete cell, John Griffiths’ Resurrection recreates the kidnapping, sexual abuse, starvation, and six-month confinement of 12-year-old Abby Drover in Port Moody, B.C.While the police and Drover’s family ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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