Reviews

Ditch

Voice is visceral, it’s of the guts, whereas the daily tinkering of today’s society is primarily cerebral: we think more than we feel, we count more than we sing. To find voice, when voice is ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers: The Cha-cha Years

By Francisco Ibañez-Carrasco

Franciso Ibañez-Carrasco’s first novel is a beautiful and often difficult book about searching for the source of one’s humanity. Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers follows Camilo, a strong-willed gay Chilean who escapes Santiago for Vancouver ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sparrow Nights

By David Gilmour

David Gilmour’s latest novel may not win him a pack of new readers, but his fans will think it just fine. Sparrow Nights covers some perennial Gilmour themes – male desire and unrequited sexual obsession ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

That’s What I Am

By Al Waxman

In our celebrity-devouring culture, it is a rite of passage for the famous, the would-be famous and the infamous to cash in on their Warhol-allotted 15 minutes by penning a memoir. And thus we are ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Shocking Beauty: Thomas Hobbs’ Innovative Garden Vision

By Thomas Hobbs

For those who consider gardening a spectator sport, autumn is the off season. The sweet surprises of spring, the colours that burgeoned then blazed through the summer, are all over now. There’s nothing to look ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Seasons of My Garden

By Marjorie Harris, Andreas Trauttmansdorff, photog.

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Canadian Garden Design: Ideas and Inspirations for Your Garden

By Mark Cullen

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

New City Gardener: Natural Techniques and Necessary Skills for a Successful Urban Garden

By Judith Adam, Tim Saunders, photog.

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Country Matters

By Tom Zsolt

Ontario’s ever-changing landscape, rural inhabitants, and crumbling architecture are the subjects of Tom Zsolt’s elegiac Country Matters. With the same measure of care that an art restorer brings to a faded painting, Zsolt’s photographs reveal ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Ethnicities: Plays from the New West

By Padma Viswanathan, Marty Chan, Jonathan Christenson, and Joey Tremblay

In the introduction, Anne Nothof says that what these recent plays have in common is “their resistance to the hegemony of Anglo society.” Perhaps, but all three are also finely crafted, imaginative plays from innovative ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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