Reviews

Lost Province: Adventures in a Moldovan Family

You would be correct to assume that the Soviet Union crumbled back in 1991 – sort of. Though most of the statues of Lenin have disappeared, the desperation and economic hopelessness that characterized life for ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Brave Wings: My Story as a Spitfire Pilot in Wwii

By Arthur Bishop

How heavy a burden,” wrote Voltaire, “is a name that has become too famous.” That’s a fact of life for many offspring of the rich and well-known, who just can’t help going through life being ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Flicker

By John Geiger

When 16-year old Brion Gysin hopped a train from Edmonton in 1932, it was with the intention of leaving bourgeois burgs forever, the better to become a traveller, poet, painter, and all-around student of ecstasy. ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Fuelling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy Is Changing Everything

By Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon, eds.

The idea for this book emerged from a late-night booze-up between its editors – Evan Solomon and Andrew Heintzman, the once-young Turks who brought us Shift magazine – and their pointy-headed friends. Unlike many alcohol-abetted ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Mortal Arguments

By Sue Sinclair

In Mortal Arguments, transplanted Newfoundland poet Sue Sinclair widens her poetic vision to embrace the whole span of human existence – from birth to death. These poems dwell more on questions and images of mortality, ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Flux

By Joe Denham

Flux, the debut collection from Vancouver poet Joe Denham, is written in the roughly hewn cadences of work and pain, an all-pervading awareness of mortality, and a quiet sense of the sacred. The opening sequence of ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Memoirs of a Media Maverick

By Boyce Richardson

At a time when aspiring journalists have few choices beyond joining the characterless world of the modern mass media, the voice of a rare journalistic gadfly should serve as a welcome antidote. For over 50 ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination

By Penny Cousineau-Levine

Finally, a theoretical examination of contemporary Canadian photography that is not only insightful and impressively researched but is beautifully designed and makes for a darn good read. In Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude

By Ann Vanderhoof

An Embarrassment of Mangoes is an odd mixture of a book – part travel journal, part culinary tour, part Cruising for Dummies (“cruising” is a term habitués use to describe life aboard a pleasure boat). ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs Are Conquering Canada

By Julian Sher and William Marsden

Midway through The Road to Hell, one can’t help but think that nothing unites Canada quite like the pervasive influence of biker organizations – unless it’s the nation’s widespread inability to do anything about them. ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

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