Reviews

The Rule of Last Clear Chance

Judith McCormack understands the sloshy, unpredictable rhythms of interiority. In this, her first story collection, she gives us characters with inner lives full of switchbacks, insinuations, and amendments. The characters include a veteran supermarket worker, ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Stone Country: An Unauthorized History of Canada

By George Bowering

What teachers didn’t tell you in Canadian history class – or maybe did tell you but put you to sleep in the process – makes up the bulk of irreverent British Columbia writer George Bowering’s ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

Secret Ingredients: The Brave New World of Industrial Farming

By Stuart Laidlaw

Stuart Laidlaw, a member of The Toronto Star’s editorial board who has led the paper’s coverage of Canadian farm and agricultural issues, has written a compassionate and harrowing account of the burgeoning industrialization of Canadian ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Confidence

By Melanie Little

In Melanie Little’s debut story collection the “confidence” of the title is a tricky quality, as likely to be associated with a swindle or a secret as it is to be linked to boldness or ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Story of Jane Doe: A Book About Rape

By Jane Doe

Jane Doe was asleep in her downtown Toronto apartment when a serial rapist climbed in over her balcony and made her his fifth victim. Although the police knew he was in the area and that ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Turning Points: The Detroit Riots of 1967, a Canadian Perspective

By Herb Colling

The city of Windsor, Ontario, is often a forgotten footnote in Canadian geography and history, dwarfed by its sister city across the border, Detroit. Herb Colling has rectified that neglected status with a number of ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Jade Coast: The Ecology of the North Pacific Ocean

By Robert Butler

The Jade Coast stretches from northern California to southeast Alaska, and Robert Butler, in his roles as park naturalist, wildlife biologist, government scientist, and university professor, knows a lot about the region and the thousands ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Grasslands

By Michael Hetherton

A woman named Sunny in one of Michael Hetherton’s stories calls a man “iceberg head,” but it’s not an insult. She means – or hopes – there’s more beneath the surface than meets the eye. ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Public Power: The Fight for Publicly Owned Electricity

By Howard Hampton with Bill Reno

Among the many controversial policies of Ontario’s Conservative government, few drew as big a public backlash as plans to privatize Ontario Hydro. One of the leaders of a movement that eventually forced the government to ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Sahara: A Natural History

By Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle

It is true, the authors of this fascinating book tell us, that the Sahara Desert is “The Great Nothing, the Endless Emptiness,” where nomads wander for days and days under a pitiless sun, over valleys ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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