Reviews

★ All the Men Are Sleeping

D.R. MacDonald is a writer of enormous talent, skill, and, it seems, patience. Like Alistair MacLeod, he hails from Cape Breton, the setting of most of his stories. Also like MacLeod, who at 66 has ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Ascent of Eli Israel

By Jon Papernick

Jon Papernick’s first collection of stories, The Ascent of Eli Israel, is a subtle, chilling, and wistful “celebration” of the war-torn devastation and spiritual stoicism that afflicts modern-day Israel. These stories are raw, yet uncannily ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Mycological Studies

By Jay Millar

Like the avant-garde musician and writer John Cage, Toronto poet and small-press publisher Jay Millar finds mushrooms fascinating (hence his title, Mycological Studies). Mushrooms offer Millar a tempting metaphor for language and the writing process. ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Ending with Music

By Maurice Mierau

The cover of Ending with Music pays tribute to the under-appreciated American poet John Berryman, and the poems contained here reflect some of Berryman’s syntactical inventiveness as well as revealing author Maurice Mierau’s preoccupation with ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travellers

By Barbara Hodgson

Barbara Hodgson’s latest quirky history book uses numerous first-person accounts, diary entries, and amusing bits of historical trivia to describe what it was like to be female and “on the road” in the days when ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

This Heated Place: Encounters in the Promised Land

By Deborah Campbell

Early in This Heated Place, an Arab acquaintance tells author Deborah Campbell – at the time a Canadian student at Tel Aviv University during the Gulf War – “What you see depends on where you ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Peter M. Pringle: Master Decoy Maker

By William C. Reeve

Some call it a craft, some folk art. Others, like professor William C. Reeve, prefer to label it utilitarian art. However it’s viewed, the handcrafting of wooden duck decoys has been a quintessentially North American ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race

By Stephanie Nolen

Back in the early days of the Cold War, it looked as though the Soviet Union was going to completely dominate the Space Race – a state of affairs that American leaders knew would be ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart

By Martha Hart and Eric Francis

By writing this book, Martha Hart, capably assisted by Calgary sportswriter Eric Francis, has not made a major contribution to literary non-fiction. The prose itself is journalistic, bereft of rhetorical showmanship, but given the subject ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Keen Soldier: The Execution of World War Two Private Harold Joseph Pringle

By Andrew Clark

During the Second World War the Canadian army executed one soldier. The unlucky victim, Private Harold Pringle of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, fell before a firing squad in Italy after V-E Day. Pringle ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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