Reviews

Little White Squaw: A White Woman’s Story of Abuse, Addiction, and Reconciliation

Eve Nash is 52. Her story is of an unrelenting existence “in a land of immeasurable blackness and defeat” in and around Haneytown, New Brunswick. Existing in the “limbo between the aboriginal and white cultures,” ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Ardor in the Court! Sex and the Law

By Jeffrey Miller

As Jeffrey Miller, author and popular columnist for The Lawyers Weekly, notes in his introduction, a lifetime of research into sex and the law would cover only the margins of the subject. Playing in those ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of Afghan Women

By Sally Armstrong

In March 1997, Sally Armstrong flew to Pakistan as a journalist. She returned to Toronto an activist. Armstrong was researching an article about the treatment of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban for Homemaker’s magazine, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Delicate Balance: What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Terrorism

By Trudy Govier

Trudy Govier’s A Delicate Balance examines terrorism, particularly terrorism against the United States, in a subdued philosophical voice. That voice, so calm, so calculating, is one of the most refreshing aspects of this short work, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Grace Under Fire: The State of Our Sweet and Savage Game

By Lawrence Scanlan

In Grace Under Fire, journalist and hockey lover Lawrence Scanlan attempts to reconcile the beauty and speed of hockey with its often casual – and occasionally brutal – violence. By poring over articles, books, studies, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Flint & Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake

By Charlotte Gray

Pauline Johnson’s poetry is often viewed today as sentimental and derivative, loping along to a dum-ti-dum-ti-dum beat long out of style. But don’t let Johnson’s fall from fashion keep you from reading Charlotte Gray’s biography ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

High Flight: Aviation and the Canadian Imagination

By Jonathan Vance

Although history professor Jonathan Vance clearly began his research on High Flight long before the tragedy of Sept. 11, his meticulously researched book nevertheless comes at a time when Canadians are paying special attention to ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

Shakespeare’s Face: Is This the Face of Genius?

By Stephanie Nolen

When her mother mentioned to journalist Stephanie Nolen that a neighbour had a one-of-a-kind portrait of William Shakespeare that might be worth a lot of money, little did the younger Nolen realize that her pursuit ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Recurring Fictions

By Wendy McGrath

Recurring Fictions, Wendy McGrath’s first novel and second book after the poetry collection common place ecstasies, is a prose poem about growing up on the Prairies. The book opens as a meditation on the sound ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sweeter Life

By Tim Wynveen

The song remains the same in most rock and roll novels. Often thinly veiled memoirs, they’re crammed with a few anecdotes of life on the road but little of the human mechanics that make good ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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