Reviews

★ No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies

Toronto journalist Naomi Klein’s No Logo is certain to become a well-thumbed handbook for consumer activists, but it will hardly thrill fashion doyennes, advertising moguls, or mega-corporation CEOs.Klein writes with passion and panache, skewering ever-burgeoning ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Cat’s Crossing

By Bill Cameron

One of Toronto’s most prominent television anchors makes his first foray into fiction with this novel about a city ignited by a $2-million reward for a lost cat. When Julia discovers that her cat Jones ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Streak of Luck

By Richelle Kosar

For her second novel, Toronto writer Richelle Kosar imagines that life-altering event that we’ve all dreamed of at one time or another – winning the lottery. Appropriately, she uses this plot vehicle to discuss the ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Broken Accidents

By Phlip Arima

In this collection of punchy short-short stories, performance poet Phlip Arima delivers a quirky mix: dark satire of our preoccupation with convenience, consumerism, and convention; surreal journeys into the subconscious; and confounding dialogues. When they ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Razovsky at Peace

By Stuart Ross

Long known to the alternative literary community for his prolific chapbooks and for his role as founder of Toronto’s Small Press Book Fair, Stuart Ross garnered mainstream attention when his book of poetry, Farmer Gloomy’s ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Rolling Home: A Cross-canada Railroad Memoir

By Tom Allen

An affable CBC Radio personality boards a Via Rail train and sets off across the country, microphone in hand. Blend a few train sounds with some conversations with eccentric people and you’ve got an interesting ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Have Not Been the Same: The Canrock Renaissance 1985-1995

By Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack, and Jason Schneider

Canadian rock and rollers have oft been overshadowed by their American and British cousins, so it’s no surprise that there’s been a dearth of memorable rock writing in this country. Where is our Greil Marcus ... Read More »

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

Notes on a Beermat: Drinking and Why It’s Necessary

By Nicholas Pashley

Nicholas Pashley doesn’t explicitly say what his intention was in writing Notes on a Beermat, but it becomes quickly apparent. This is an exercise in psychology: Pashley is getting in touch with his inner curmudgeon.Pashley ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Getting Started: A Memoir of the 1950s

By William Weintraub

Like the least-known member of a string quartet, William Weintraub’s status as a writer seems destined to remain in the shadows cast by his three more famous friends of the 1950s, Mordecai Richler, Mavis Gallant, ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig 1966-2000

By Bob Boyer & Carol Podedworny, Daphne Odjig, illus.

Until fairly recently, aboriginal art was considered quaint craftwork, suitable for discussion by ethnologists strictly in terms of its function within aboriginal societies. But over the last few decades, aboriginal art has slowly come to ... Read More »

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

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