Reviews

Buffalo Jump: A Woman’s Travels

May 12Tom says the new chicks have Pasty Butt, a condition that requires cleaning. And since he squished his hand in between logs and the top of his index finger has gone black, it is ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Nuk Tessli: The Life of a Wilderness Dweller

By Chris Czajkowski

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Riska, Memories of a Dayak Girlhood

By Riska Orpa Sari, Linda Spalding, ed.

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hard Right Turn: The New Face of Neo-conservativism in Canada

By Brooke Jeffrey

In the straight-shooting, uncomplicated world of the neo-conservative, Brooke Jeffrey is the Other. She is a political science professor, a former federal bureaucrat, and a one-time Liberal candidate. Now she has written a book, assessing ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Civil Society in Question

By Jamie Swift

According to Jamie Swift, defining the term “civil society” is like trying to pin jelly to the wall. This particular jelly is as much in vogue these days as terms like stakeholder, collateral damage, and ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Field of Glory: The Battle of Crysler’s Farm, 1813

By Donald E. Graves

On a rainy November day in 1813, a greatly outnumbered army of British soldiers, supported by a few Canadian militia and 30 Mohawk warriors, stood on the muddy fields of John Crysler’s farm on the ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: History

Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon

By Barbara Hodgson

While opium den is a term used by today’s interior decorators to describe any room with cushions on the floor, it wasn’t so long ago that it referred to a place where high and low ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Baby Blues

By Drew Hayden Taylor

Look out Norm Foster! Drew Hayden Taylor is nipping at your heels with The Baby Blues. Like so many of Foster’s plays, this one should be right at home in summer theatres across the country. ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Summer of Apartment X

By Lesley Choyce

As warm as a beach blanket, as regular as the tide, and as endearingly dull as a made-for-TV movie, this very slight novella takes a clichéd idea and gives it a gentle, middlebrow spin. The ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Halfway to the East

By Marusya Bociurkiw

Throughout her first collection of poems, Halfway to the East, Marusya Bociurkiw, a Vancouver-based media artist, displays the gifts of a first-rate social observer.Bociurkiw is mainly concerned with two subjects, the immigrant and the gay ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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