Reviews

The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr

Emily Carr is a Canadian icon, and like many another icon, her exact meaning is constantly being re-evaluated. Carr has enjoyed several incarnations: tortured artist, pioneering modernist, mystical nationalist, feminist trailblazer, dotty recluse, best-selling author, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train and Changed the World

By Clark Blaise

In Time Lord, Clark Blaise pays homage to the creation and evolution of a modern and postmodern consciousness of time through the biography of Sir Sandford Fleming, the inventor of standard time. It is more ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Inside Out

By Evelyn Lau

Vancouver writer Evelyn Lau has never been reticent when it comes to self-revelation. Inside Out, her second volume of memoirs (the first, the best-selling Runaway, was published when Lau was just 18) continues to document ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Just Another Indian: A Serial Killer and Canada’s Indifference

By Warren Goulding

In 1996, John Martin Crawford was convicted of one count of first- and two counts of second-degree murder in the 1992 deaths of Shelley Napope, Calinda Waterhen, and Eva Taysup. The remains of the women, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin

By Ken McGoogan

Journalist and novel writer Ken McGoogan originally envisioned the material for Fatal Passage as a novel, but his research turned up such a fascinating story that he felt it would be better told as non-fiction. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

Born with a Tooth

By Joseph Boyden

The stories in Joseph Boyden’s first collection, Born with a Tooth, chart the resources, rituals, misgivings, and misfortunes of a cast of characters on a Northern Ontario native reserve. As a series of windows into ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Flying in Silence

By Gerry Turcotte

Like so many novels of childhood, Flying in Silence is structured like a contemporary Odyssey – only in reverse. Where Ulysses confronts miracles and monsters on a voyage to his elusive homeland, today’s hero is ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Make Believe Love

By Lee Gowan

“Quirky” is one of those overused words, right up there with “dot-com” and “extreme.” But Lee Gowan’s first novel, Make Believe Love, really does deserve the epithet. You’ve got Joan, the wiseass, sexy librarian; Jason, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Kind of Fiction

By P.K. Page; P.K. Page

In “Unless the Eye Catch Fire,” the last and best story of P.K. Page’s A Kind of Fiction, an avid gardener and sometime journal writer is possessed by a strangely calm end-of-world vision that enables ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Miss Smithers

By Susan Juby

My first exposure to the genre of junior chick-lit happened in an airport departure lounge. The girl sitting across from me was engrossed in her book. She was a tidy girl, ten-something, with a tidy ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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