Reviews

★ Baltimore’s Mansion

"An island to someone who has never left it is the world. An island to someone who has never seen it does not exist.” That quote from Wayne Johnston’s evocative new memoir, Baltimore’s Mansion, succinctly ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill

By Charlotte Gray

In taking up the story of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill, Charlotte Gray is dealing with material already familiar to many readers. However, by drawing extensively on their letters, she fills out the existing ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English

By Rosemary Sullivan, ed.

Introduction to Literary Journalism AssignmentReviewing a Big AnthologyWord limit350 words exactlyGuidelinesThis endeavour may pose intriguing methodological problems for the reviewer, experienced or novice. Should we review the editor? Individual writers? Is there any point in ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Adultery Handbook

By Carol Malyon

Anybody who buys Carol Malyon’s The Adultery Handbook thinking that it might be something like Helen Fielding’s The Diary of Bridget Jones is going to be sorely disappointed. Instead of the flip, hip, funny guide ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Secrets in Water

By Barbara Sapergia

Toronto readers shouldn’t take umbrage that their city serves as Saskatoon writer Barbara Sapergia’s metaphor for spiritual paralysis: even back home on the Prairies, her central characters were unhappy. But it is in Toronto’s Cabbagetown ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Caring for the Mind: The Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health

By Robert E. Hales, Allen Frances, Dianne Hales

After spending an hour or so perusing the bookshelves at my local big-box, books-by-the-barrel bazaar (where, by the way, I am certain that the health categories into which the books are divided were selected by ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self

By Peter D. Kramer

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Stop Depression Now: Sam-e, the Breakthrough Supplement That Works as Well as Prescription Drugs in Half the Time … with No Side Effects

By Richard Brown, Carol Colman, Teodoro Bottiglieri

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

By Elizabeth Wurtzel

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Studio Rally: Art and Craft of Nova Scotia

By Robin Metcalfe

When Nova Scotia’s annual Studio Rally takes place each autumn, hundreds of craftspeople open their doors to the public. The event’s success over the years has led to a glossy book profiling some of the ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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