The End of Travel

Poet Julie Bruck is a former Montrealer now living in San Francisco. This second collection is distinguished by a gentle touch that leavens the dark landscape of her poetry. Bruck charts the everyday, urban world ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Ingmar Bergman: Magician and Prophet

By Marc Gervais

Ingmar Bergman, undoubtedly one of the greatest directors the cinema has produced, is also one of the most critically appreciated, analyzed, and assessed artists. There are dozens of works written about Bergman (not to mention ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Merger: A Criminal Conspiracy to Take Over Canada and the World

By Jeffrey Robinson

The ways of the mob have been changed forever by new faces who make the traditional Mafiosi seem benign. Mobologist Jeffrey Robinson, whose specialty is chronicling money laundering, focuses here on Colombian narcotrafficantes, corrupt Mexican ... Read More »

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

A Cruel Paradise

By Leanne Olson

A cruel paradise indeed. Doctors Without Borders nurse Leanne Olson conveys the weight of this oxymoron in her editorialized journal. Her life as a relief worker in wartorn nations shows the depths of cruelty and ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Be Good, Sweet Maid: The Trials of Dorothy Joudrie

By Audrey Andrews

Cynics could argue that Dorothy Joudrie was guilty of hyperbole when she fired six bullets into the body of her estranged husband, Earl. Despite her excessive gesture (and partly because Dorothy called 911 shortly thereafter), ... Read More »

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

Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-home Dad

By David Eddie

What happens when a “hard-core, hard-drinking bachelor in the Charles Bukowski mould” falls in love, starts a family, and decides to stay home with his newborn son? If he’s David Eddie, author of the fabulous ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The End of Gay (and the Death of Heterosexuality)

By Bert Archer

In recent years, authors have announced “the end of” and “the death of” everything from authors to the world. Given that last rites have been pronounced on education, the family, God, history, ideology, nature, and ... Read More »

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

J.B. McLachlan: A Biography

By David Frank

During the 1970s, one of David Frank’s Dalhousie professors wondered aloud when someone would produce a definitive biography of Canadian labour radical and Cape Breton miners’ hero J.B. McLachlan.A quarter-century later, Frank has risen to ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada’s Leaders

By J.L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer

Repeat after me. Canadian history isn’t boring; Canadian historians are boring. Most of them, anyway. As Will Ferguson amply illustrates in his survey of Canada’s glorious leaders past and present, Bastards & Boneheads, the history ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: History