★ Motion Sickness

As the decade draws to a close, some readers will be eager to bid adieu to that overindulged literary trend of the 1990s – the dysfunctional family memoir. But amid the shapeless, self-mythologizing volumes clogging ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Silicon Boys

By David A. Kaplan

Depending on who you ask, the economy is either “booming,” “dangerously overheated,” or “a bubble about to burst.” There’s probably a bit of truth in all three descriptions, but the fact is this: we’re living ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

How the Web Was Won

By Paul Andrews

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The New New Thing

By Michael Lewis

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Psychic Unrest

By Lillian Allen

Reading Lillian Allen, one is reminded that there are people in the world for whom poetry is raison d’être: “Writing poetry is the work of the soul.” The poems of this multi-disciplinary Caribbean-born, Toronto-based artist ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Simple Things: The Story of a Friendship

By Karen Lavut

Karen Lavut’s memoir of her friendship with the painter Christiane Pflug tells a tragic but all-too-familiar story. Pflug’s life in many ways resembled that of poet Gwendolyn MacEwen – she was an attractive and extremely ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Shoreline: Three Plays

By Don Hannah

Don Hannah’s plays demonstrate the theatre’s ability to grab the emotions of an audience and not let go for a second. The three plays collected here, Rubber Dolly, Running Far Back, and Fathers and Sons, ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Marion Bridge

By Daniel MacIvor

Home is where you hang yourself.” It may be a flippant, throwaway line in Ann Lambert’s play Very Heaven but it does capture the destructive essence of family life as portrayed by these two Canadian ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Very Heaven

By Ann Lambert

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Green Man

By John Donlan

Certain things in this world are still better when they’re made the old-fashioned way. Certain things, but not always art. When art is made the old-fashioned way, it just feels, well, old-fashioned. As a poet, ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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