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American art historian Linda Nochlin’s seminal essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” argued that women were excluded from achieving greatness in art by social norms and biological imperatives. The division of labour ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Sea of Heartbreak: An Extraordinary Account of a Newfoundland Fishing Voyage

By Michael Dwyer

Despite Farley Mowat’s heavy-handed introduction, Sea of Heartbreak is a straightforward, harrowing tale of a commercial fishery gone horribly wrong. Michael Dwyer, a Newfoundland fisherman, is a first-time author, and that shows here. His prose ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Run Over: A Boy, His Mother and an Accident

By Douglas Bell

Douglas Bell’s Run Over is the latest addition to the growing library of trauma memoirs – stories of life-changing encounters with illness, freak storms, rogue animals, or murderous vehicles. Such memoirs, by positing trauma as ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

River Song: Sailing the History of the St. Lawrence

By Phil Jenkins

Phil Jenkins, a musician, freelance writer, and author of An Acre of Time, has a passion for the St. Lawrence. In his latest book, River Song, he indulges that passion to tell the mighty river’s ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

Prescription Games: Money, Ego, and Power Inside the Global Pharmaceutical Industry

By Jeffrey Robinson

When it comes to health care, the public has high expectations. Patients demand strict ethical standards and believe that a certain degree of altruism should motivate not only health professionals, but pharmaceutical companies as well. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Quebec: A Tale of Love

By Laurier LaPierre

Quebec: A Tale of Love is Laurier LaPierre’s attempt at explaining the current state of Quebec and how it got that way. A historian and broadcaster, LaPierre has written several books about his native province. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

Fraud

By David Rakoff

David Rakoff spends his life at a considerable remove. A neurotic, homosexual Canadian Jew who has spent almost half his life in New York City working as a journalist – but not a reporter, he ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The La Fenice Cookbook: Luigi’s Passion

By Luigi Orgera,Sally Doulis, and Colleen Mathieu

Much like David Rocco’s recent excellent cookbook, Avventura, for which Rocco toured Italy gathering recipes from local chefs, the strength of The La Fenice Cookbook, by Luigi Orgera, is its authenticity. Orgera, who died last ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Loyal No More: Ontario’s Struggle for a Separate Identity

By John Ibbitson

John Ibbitson, a columnist with the Globe and Mail, is a brave writer. While he could have limited the scope of Loyal No More to the current impasse between Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill, Ibbitson ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

What’s Left Us

By Aislinn Hunter

The stories and novella in Aislinn Hunter’s What’s Left Us concern themselves with young women muddling their way through love affairs and family entanglements both mundane and dramatic. Hunter’s storytelling voice is savvy and contemporary, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

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