The Second Life of Samuel Tyne

Samuel Tyne is one of the oddest protagonists you will find in a Canadian novel of this or any other publishing season. A native of Africa’s Gold Coast (which we now call Ghana, though he ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Eastern Standard Tribe

By Cory Doctorow

It is 2022 and Art, the tech-head protagonist of Eastern Standard Tribe, is on the sunny rooftop of a Boston sanatorium debating whether to drive a pencil up his nose. A homemade lobotomy seems like ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Horn of a Lamb

By Robert Sedlack

Novelist Robert Sedlack’s poignant second novel, The Horn of a Lamb, takes place a long way from the setting of his acclaimed 2001 debut, The African Safari Papers. This time Sedlack introduces the reader to ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Beginning of Was

By Ania Szado

Toronto writer Ania Szado’s skillful debut novel reminds us that even in the grand democratization of household chores, sewing remains a female discipline. The lives of mothers and daughters, it seems, are still linked one ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Stowaway

By Robert Hough

In 1996 Filipino crew members deserted the Taiwanese container ship Maersk Dubai at port in Halifax after revealing to authorities chilling tales of onboard cruelty and murder. After discovering two Romanian stowaways who had boarded ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Excessive Love Prostheses

By Margaret Christakos

Margaret Christakos quotes fellow poet Lola Lemire Tostevin in the prologue to Excessive Love Prostheses: “the amputated/truncated text/follows an imaginary line/and grows/extravagant.” Reading the poems that follow, I would have to place the word “sometimes” ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Cartography and Walking

By Adam Dickinson

Too often young poets embark on their first book as casually as they’d submit to a first date: with little to lose and seemingly nothing better to do that night. So it can feel like ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life

By David Kuhl, MD

It was only a matter of time before a book on dying joined the already groaning shelf of “how to” books. What Dying People Want is a valuable contribution – a frank, informed and compassionate ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Restless Gods: The Renaissance of Religion in Canada

By Reginald W. Bibby

University of Lethbridge sociologist Reginald Bibby has been surveying Canadian religious habits and attitudes since 1975, earning him the nickname “Bad News Bibby” in some religious circles for his dire predictions about the future of ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Biker Who Shot Me: Recollections of a Crime Reporter

By Michel Auger, Jean-Paul Murray , trans.

In September 2000, veteran reporter Michel Auger was shot six times in the parking lot of Le Journal de Montréal. Many English-speaking Canadians, unfamiliar with Auger’s work in the French-language newspaper, discovered that the reporter ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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The Second Life of Samuel Tyne

Eastern Standard Tribe

The Horn of a Lamb

Beginning of Was

★ The Stowaway

Excessive Love Prostheses

Cartography and Walking

What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life

Restless Gods: The Renaissance of Religion in Canada

The Biker Who Shot Me: Recollections of a Crime Reporter

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