Reviews

No Early Birds

After 60-year-old Louise Bingham flies to Montreal from her retirement retreat in Victoria, she takes on the task of helping her widowed cousin Diana Hamilton organize a yard sale before moving out of the old ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Generica

By Will Ferguson

Edwin de Valu, the hero of Will Ferguson’s Generica, is a bitter junior editor who, by publishing a self-help book that leaves its readers in a state of blissful contentment, unwittingly ends the world as ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Inishbream

By Theresa Kishkan

Inishbream was first published, in a slightly different form, as a limited edition in 1999. The novella is the story of a Canadian traveller, the unnamed female narrator, who drifts to the small titular island ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

After Battersea Park

By Jonathan Bennett

You have to admire first-time novelist Jonathan Bennett for resisting the literary hijinks and punchlines inherent in telling the story of twins separated at birth – or, in this case, separated at age four. Instead, ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Sister Crazy

By Emma Richler

There’s a lot going on in Sister Crazy, Emma Richler’s debut novel that manages to mix references to St. Francis of Assisi, champagne, cowboys, nuns, and famous films like Jules et Jim without hitting a ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Efficient Society: Why Canada Is as Close to Utopia as It Gets

By Joseph Heath

According to the old refrain of the Canadian right, Americans are simply wealthier and happier than we are; if Canadians could visualize the comparison, our welfare state would be a bloated white elephant next to ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The World’s Most Dangerous Woman: A New Biography of Emma Goldman

By Theresa and Albert Moritz

More than 60 years after her death, the celebratory anarchist spirit of Emma Goldman continues to hold more resonance with young people storming the barricades of globalization than many contemporary political icons. Goldman, known during ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making

By Margaret Conrad and James Hiller

History scholars Margaret Conrad and James Hiller bring a wide range of expertise to Atlantic Canada, the third volume in Oxford’s Illustrated History of Canada series. Atlantic Canada looks at Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Luck of the Draw: True Life Tales of Lottery Winners and Losers

By Chris Gudgeon and Barbara Stewart

“Ka-ching!” went the strings of Owen Edmunds’ heart. The Richmond, B.C. cad then phoned his fiancée – collect – to announce that he had won half a million dollars on Lotto 6/49, and that the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Taste of Metal: A Deserter’s Story

By Jack Todd

The searing stories of the Americans who went to Vietnam to fight and bleed and die are written in the novels and short stories of Tim O’Brien and in memoirs like Michael Herr’s Dispatches and ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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