Reviews

Original Minds

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

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By Ken Sparling

From its non-title to its long stretches of white space, Ken Sparling’s novel without a name announces itself as “experimental fiction.” Sparling has long been a student and champion of literary minimalism, and he takes ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Timbit Nation: A Hitchhiker’s View of Canada

By John Stackhouse

The idea behind Timbit Nation was for John Stackhouse, former New Delhi correspondent for The Globe and Mail, to see his own country as a foreigner might see it. After almost eight years of reporting ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

The Green Labyrinth: Exploring the Mysteries of the Amazon

By Sylvia Fraser

The Green Labyrinth is a continuation of Sylvia Fraser’s previous book, The Rope in the Water, in that she is still following her curiosity about non-Western healing and spirituality into remote corners of the world. ... Read More »

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

★ Rogue Diamonds: The Rush for Northern Riches on Dene Land

By Ellen Bielawski

Rogue Diamonds begins right where it should: on the land. Specifically, the land of the Dene Súliné people, near the northeastern part of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. But it soon shifts to ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Awol: Tales for Travel-inspired Minds

By Jennifer Barclay and Amy Logan, eds.

What a good idea: compile brief, true travel narratives from a selection of well-known and up-and-coming Canadian novelists, poets, editors, and journalists. With AWOL, editors Jennifer Barclay and Amy Logan have outdone themselves. Their selections ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

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

Promiscuous Unbound

By Bex Brian

For a novel that seems to promise sensual candour if not outright licentiousness, the only truly shocking thing about Promiscuous Unbound, Bex Brian’s debut novel, is just how modest it turns out to be. Although ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle

By Monique Proulx, Fred A. Reed and David Homel, trans.

Best-selling Quebec novelist Monique Proulx doesn’t have her own web site, but she leaps daringly into cyberspace in her latest novel. While designing web sites for a rag-tag mob of artists, writers, clowns, and other ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Diamond: A Memoir of 100 Days

By Dawn Rae Downton

In her second book, Diamond, Nova Scotia writer Dawn Rae Downton has paired two themes that are popular with memoirists: homecoming and bereavement. It is to her credit that much of this narrative feels fresh ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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