Reviews

Promiscuous Unbound

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

From Someplace Else

By Ralph Osborne

Though ostensibly a memoir of the years he lived and worked at Rochdale College, the now legendary student residence and “free university” that was loosely affiliated with the University of Toronto, Ralph Osborne’s From Someplace ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Guide to Canadian Children’s Books

By Deirdre Baker and Ken Setterington

There are abundant British and American guides to children’s books, but it’s extremely rare to find Canadian titles in their pages. If for no other reason than national pride, we needed McClelland & Stewart’s A ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

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

Museum of Bone and Water

By Nicole Brossard, Erin Mouré and Robert Mazjels, trans.

Although not strictly in the tradition of the language poets of the 1970s, Quebecoise poet Nicole Brossard’s work has always been marked by serious language play and Museum of Bone and Water, in an exquisite ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Forde Abroad

By John Metcalf

John Metcalf has not published a stand-alone book of fiction in some 10 years. This is unfortunate, because he is one of Canada’s best writers. With the publication of Forde Abroad, a brilliant 80-page novella, ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Children’s Books That Nurture the Spirit

By Louise Margaret Granahan

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Understanding Canadian Defence

By Desmond Morton

On Feb. 12, only weeks before the U.S. war in Iraq, Defense Minister John McCallum announced the deployment to Afghanistan, later this year, of over 1,000 Canadian soldiers for peacekeeping duty. Hours later, Major General ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

★ Question & Answer

By Alison Pick

What is the answer?” No answer came. She laughed and said, “In that case what is the question?” (Gertrude Stein) In her debut poetry collection, Question & Answer, Alison Pick takes up Gertrude Stein’s challenge, ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

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