Summer of the Heart: Saving Alexandre

We’ve all watched with some amusement as frantic first-time parents worry whether each sound (or lack thereof) emitting from their newborn’s crib is a sign of something critical. In Summer of the Heart, Paul Adams, ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Requiem for a Giant: A.v. Roe and the Avro Arrow

By Palmiro Campagna

Numerous books have been written about the rise of A.V. Roe Canada and its development of the Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor plane, raising the question: can another book about the subject add anything significant to ... Read More »

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

Risking It All: My Student, My Lover, My Story

By Heather E. Ingram

Heather Ingram’s memoir about her affair with a 17-year-old student explores one of today’s trickiest topics – the sexual exploitation of minors. In Risking It All Ingram recounts her stark childhood, the emotionally and sexually ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Foreigners

By Stephen Finucan

Stephen Finucan’s second book of short fiction offers readers a paragraph from Emerson’s Self Reliance as an epigraph. The paragraph includes the famous lines: “Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Beyond the Crazy House: Changing the Future of Madness

By Pat Capponi

A key area has fallen through the cracks in the follow-up discussions to the Romanow Commission on Canada’s health care system: mental health. Thankfully, activist Pat Capponi has been paying close attention to the fate ... Read More »

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

Black Bird

By Michel Basilières

Michel Basilières’ Black Bird is a bitter novel – bitterly funny and full of sour memories of a Montreal and a Quebec that no longer exist. As such it will undoubtedly be very popular with ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Original Minds

By Eleanor Wachtel

Imagine a lively cocktail party filled with fascinating people, like former Goon Show star Jonathan Miller, chimp specialist Jane Goodall, neurologist Oliver Sacks, filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, scholar Harold Bloom, and urban planner Jane Jacobs. Imagine ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

Country of Cold

By Kevin Patterson

Country of Cold is the first fiction offering from Kevin Patterson, author of the sailing memoir The Water in Between. The collection’s 13 stories follow the lives of a group of small-town Manitoba graduates as ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Ignorant Armies: Sliding into War in Iraq

By Gwynne Dyer

As I sit writing this review, the U.S. and some of its allies are going to war against Iraq. Journalist Gwynne Dyer predicted this turn of events in his new book, Ignorant Armies. His intention ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

Missing Children

By Lynn Crosbie

If you write an unflinchingly human portrait of a murderer, are you glamorizing his crimes? That’s the question Lynn Crosbie has posed in four previous poetry collections (most notoriously with her piece of true-crime poetry, ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

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