Reviews

Children’s Books That Nurture the Spirit

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

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

Missing Children

By Lynn Crosbie

If you write an unflinchingly human portrait of a murderer, are you glamorizing his crimes? That’s the question Lynn Crosbie has posed in four previous poetry collections (most notoriously with her piece of true-crime poetry, ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Because We Are Canadians

By Sgt. Charles D. Kipp

In his foreword to Because We Are Canadians, Pierre Berton mentions the relative scarcity of published memoirs by soldiers who participated in the Second World War. Whereas the literature of the Great War is dominated ... 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

Victory Meat: New Fiction from Atlantic Canada

By Lynn Coady,ed.

Geography has always played a role in great fiction, making an anthology based on a specific region a promising idea. The nuances that surface in these collections allow a pleasing glimpse of that elusive notion ... 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

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

The Rule of Last Clear Chance

By Judith McCormack

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

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

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