Reviews

★ Fidelity

Michael Redhill’s literary trajectory from poet to playwright to fiction writer is a common enough pattern in this country, but his level of accomplishment is exceptional. Short-listed for a Governor General’s Award in 2001 for ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Virtual Clearcut or the Way Things Are in My Hometown

By Brian Fawcett

It’s a common enough story: boy grows up in isolated small town, escapes to big city, never looks back. But author and former Globe and Mail columnist Brian Fawcett can’t quite leave his hometown of ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Designerguys: Finding Your Personal Style

By Chris Hyndman and Steven Sabados

Snobs would say that any artefact that features the phrase “personal style” probably hasn’t got any, but people who look at subtitles – or who actually read – are probably not the point here. With ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist’s Search for a Killer Virus

By Kirsty E. Duncan

The influenza epidemic after the First World War was the deadliest outbreak on record, killing an estimated 20 to 40 million people in one year. Kirsty Duncan, a geographer at the University of Windsor, became ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Finding Peace

By Jean Vanier

We live in a tumultuous and disheartening time, a time to which only cynicism seems the appropriate response, a bulwark against outright despair. It seems odd, if not naive, to suggest that there might be ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

By Gil Courtemanche, Patricia Claxton, trans.

Even in the months before the machetes started to fall in 1994, Kigali was not the sort of city that promised long life. The pool referred to in the title of this first novel by ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt’s Everlasting Oasis

By Harry Thurston

Author, scientist, and environmental journalist Harry Thurston’s latest book combines the most winning elements of the travelogue and archeological mystery while working in a timely environmental warning. Island of the Blessed tracks the unfolding archeology ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Corner Garden

By Lesley Krueger

A novel narrated by a 15-year-old girl is an obvious candidate for young adult readers, and Lesley Krueger’s third novel, The Corner Garden, has strong crossover potential. Anyone offering this rich, complex novel to a ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pouring Small Fire

By Susan Manchester

With concrete imagery painted over punchy verse, Pouring Small Fire resembles a collection of nature photographs capturing memorable scenes. Poet and English teacher Susan Manchester writes how “the mist still paused” and “rude oaks laugh ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

The No-nonsense Guide to Terrorism

By Jonathan Barker

Placing the hot-button issue of terrorism into perspective can be a tricky proposition, especially given the multitude of ideological minefields behind the us-versus-them rhetoric that often defines the discussion. But Jonathan Barker has taken his ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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