Reviews

The Wife’s Account

The Wife’s Account is Esta Spalding’s fourth book of poetry in just over seven years. In the vividly imagistic style that has established her reputation, the collection (we are told on the dust jacket) encapsulates ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

No Foreign Bones in China: Memoirs of Imperialism and Its Ending

By Peter Stursberg

Effective tour guides to that other country – the past – generally share two attributes: top-notch research skills and imagination. Longtime journalist Peter Stursberg’s strong investigative skills are evident throughout his account of his ancestor’s ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing

By Stephen Henighan

Cultural commentators have been trumpeting a Canadian literary renaissance for the past decade or so, citing lucrative foreign sales, international prizes, and worldwide media attention for our literary fiction. Canadian is hot, the headlines read. ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Alone in the Appalachians: A City Girl’s Trek from Maine to the Gaspé

By Monique Dykstra

Despite extensive outdoor experience writing for such publications as Alaska Magazine and Canoe and Kayak, writer and photographer Monique Dykstra bravely admits that she wasn’t sure what she was getting herself into when she decided ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Free as in Speech and Beer: The Internet, Gift Economies and the Intellectual Property Crisis

By Darren Wershler-Henry

In the aftermath of the dot-com bust comes Darren Wershler-Henry, an irreverent voice dancing on the dead bones of e-business hype and devalued high-tech stocks. Free as in Speech and Beer is a wonderful primer ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Power and Greed

By Philippe Gigantes

Philippe Gigantes, a Greek-born Canadian journalist, political commentator, and senior civil servant in Trudeau’s government, offers a thought-provoking and accessible survey of world history in his new book, Power and Greed. As the title suggests, ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

By Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary

Pioneering science fiction author and political activist Judith Merril was not one to mince words or follow convention, so it’s no surprise that she bluntly states in her introduction to Better to Have Loved that ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Seldom

By Dawn Rae Downton

Anybody expecting the quaint, feel-good Newfoundland of E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is bound for a surprise in Dawn Rae Downton’s memoir of early 20th-century Newfoundland. Life is a whole lot tougher in this ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Anorexia’s Fallen Angel: The Untold Story of Peggy Claude-pierre and the Controversial Montreux Clinic

By Barbara McLintock

When Peggy Claude-Pierre, owner of the Montreux eating disorders clinic in Victoria, appeared on The Maury Povich Show along with her acutely anorexic client Samantha, the consensus was that Claude-Pierre was heaven-sent. Why else would ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Diary Between Friends

By Government of Canada, ed.

The idea of creating a scrapbook of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may seem like a morbid idea at first, but with more media coverage than almost any event in world history, the urge to ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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