Reviews

The Heart of Conflict: A Spirituality of Transformation

There are few writers who can match the clarity, knowledge, and good intentions of Dr. Elinor Powell, a mediator and trainer at the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Management in Victoria. Dr. Powell offers more ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Health & Self-help

D-Day: The Greatest Invasion, A People’s History

By Dan van der Vat

Spearheading the army of books soon to be released for the 60th anniversary of D-Day in 2004 is Dan van der Vat’s D-Day: The Greatest Invasion, A People’s History ($60 cloth 1-55192-586-9, 176 pp., Raincoast ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney’s Café and Other Non-Globalized Places, People and Ideas

By Brian Fawcett

Registering your online vote for the latest round of Canadian Idol or being able to confidently choose among 48 different kinds of extra virgin olive oil should not be mistaken for exercising one’s democratic duty. ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Writers Talking

By John Metcalf and Claire Wilkshire, eds.

For this new Porcupine’s Quill anthology of short fiction, John Metcalf and co-editor Claire Wilkshire have selected eight stories by eight different authors: Michael Winter, Lisa Moore, Steven Heighton, Mary Borsky, K.D. Miller, Terry Griggs, ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Hair Hat

By Carrie Snyder

Short stories, like poems, are often more adept than novels at showcasing tail-ends of thoughts and strange whiffs of emotion. Stories cruise along from moment to moment, bypass or butt up against Meaning, and resist ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

I, Shithead: A Life in Punk

By Joe Keithley

Still ringing hell’s bells after all these years, punk, provocateur, and regular guy Joe Shithead won’t be leaving the stage any time soon. In 1977 he formed the now-legendary Vancouver band D.O.A., at which point ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Journeyman: Travels of a Writer

By Timothy Findley, William Whitehead, ed.

Journeyman showcases many of the qualities that have come to define Timothy Findley’s presence on Canada’s national literary stage. In this collection of articles, speeches, and journal entries that he began compiling years before his ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

57 Hours: A Survivor’s Account of the Moscow Hostage Drama

By Vesselin Nedkov and Paul Wilson

This book has all the tell-tale signs of being a knock-off meant to cash in on a news story still fresh in the public’s mind. There’s the relatively quick turnaround time, two authors (although no ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Roam: A Novel

By Vanz Chapman

A stranger in a strange land, Afro-haired, brown skinned Uly has come back to the small West Indies Island where he was raised. He’s a homeboy with a past. Revisiting his old haunts – the ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Montreal Stories

By Clark Blaise

Author Clark Blaise has been publishing short stories for over 30 years, but many of his books have gone out of print. The Porcupine’s Quill deserves high praise for republishing selected stories in four volumes. ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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