The Swashbucklers: The Story of Canada’s Battling Broadcasters

One of the great things about living in Canada is the wide range of choices in broadcast content both on the radio and on television. Living so close to the U.S., we’re able to pick ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession

By Matthew Hart

Like hard, everlasting roses, there are hundreds of shades of red diamonds alone, from “water” pink to vivid red. As Matthew Hart’s Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession skillfully recounts, gemstone diamonds ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Weird Sex & Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena

By Katherine Monk

Any attempt at defining Canada’s cultural landscape must acknowledge such pioneering works as Northrop Frye’s The Bush Garden and Margaret Atwood’s Survival. Vancouver film critic Katherine Monk recognizes the critical foundations laid down in these ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Galileo’s Mistake: The Archaeology of a Myth

By Wade Rowland

Veteran journalist Wade Rowland follows up the success of Ockham’s Razor with another examination of the conflict between science and faith. In Galileo’s Mistake, Rowland ventures to the very roots of that schism and challenges ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Path of Totality

By Audrey Thomas

In her introduction to The Path of Totality, a selection of new and previously published stories from her 35-year oeuvre, Audrey Thomas confesses that “Almost every story in this collection has something to do with ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Spadework

By Timothy Findley

Since his earliest novels, Timothy Findley has explored the many ways people betray their own better natures. Spadework continues this trend in showing how demons of anarchy and ambivalence conspire to destroy one man’s responsibility ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar

By Ashok Mathur

Calgary writer Ashok Mathur’s first novel, Once Upon an Elephant, was a perfectly pitched satire in which a gruesome and bizarre double murder entangles a diverse group of characters, including the elephant-headed deity Ganesh. Mathur ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Last Summer at Barebones

By Diane Baker Mason

There is something of the talk-show confessional in Diane Baker Mason’s first novel, Last Summer at Barebones – the embittered, vengeful narrator, Dee Graham, who has yet to overcome her emotional and physical struggles as ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Critical Injuries

By Joan Barfoot

Walking into a small-town ice cream parlour in the middle of a hold-up, 49-year-old Isla is shot and ultimately paralyzed from the waist down. The shooter, 17-year-old Roddy, takes off in a panic but is ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Emily Carr Country

By Courtney Milne

Celebrated West Coast painter Emily Carr was also an accomplished writer, winning a Governor General’s Award in 1941 for her first book, Klee Wyck. In Emily Carr Country ($60 cloth 0-7710-5889-6, 208 pp., McClelland & ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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