January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
When it comes to our own history, Canadians are notoriously sketchy on its details, but when it comes to analyzing hockey, almost everyone is an expert. We know more about the neutral zone trap than ... Read More »
Why, then, could I not look for the soul of the country,” Roy MacGregor asks early in his new book “in the desire to escape?” It’s an interesting thesis, rooted as it is in the ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
For Normand Lester, a francophone journalist with Radio-Canada, the officially promoted narratives of Canadian history are biased in favour of English Canada and whitewash its many injustices. Lester wants to set the record straight, and ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Witold Rybczynski is perhaps the closest we have in Canada to a Renaissance man. His works, which usually begin from a tightly focused locus point – the absence of the concept of comfort in architectural ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
Canadians know very little about their history and even less about their military past. Part of the blame for the latter deficiency is that Canada’s veterans have, to an extraordinary degree, remained mute about their ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: History
In a culture saturated with Law & Order reruns and cops-as-idols reality shows, lawyer Thomas Berger’s memoir is a refreshing, compelling read about using the legal process to make the world a better place. Like ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Their plan had been characterized by many (scientists and government officials included) as irresponsible, arrogant, and above all dangerous. Quite simply, Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns wanted to live with grizzly bears in the wild. ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
In the mid 1990s three motley, smart-ass Canadian guys – Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, and Shane Smith – fell to earth from, respectively, a stint in narco rehab, a make-work welfare program, and a no-future ... Read More »
January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies
Poet and short story writer Aislinn Hunter’s first novel is about a young Canadian who makes the pilgrimage to Europe to find herself. The plot may sound old-fashioned, but Stay’s rigorous examination of the relationship ... Read More »
January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
“Objects hold meaning,” Rebecca tells her daughter Anna from her deathbed, “an object might reveal a person’s hopes and dreams.” That object, Anna soon discovers, is her mother’s diary dating back to 1909. The revelations ... Read More »
January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels