Reviews

Aids Activist: Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community

At a time when one of the largest annual gatherings in Toronto is the Gay Pride parade, it’s significant to recall that such an outpouring of support for the lesbian and gay community would not ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin’s Lieutenant

By Peter Steele

Whitehorse author Peter Steele is a biographer who has done his share of northern travelling. In The Man Who Mapped the Arctic, Steele turns his attention to one of the hardiest 19th-century Arctic explorers, George ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Shoshanna’s Story

By Elaine Kalman Naves

Elaine Kalman Naves brings a crisp, beguiling voice to her contemplation of her complicated childhood in Hungary, England, and Montreal. Born to Holocaust-survivors Shoshanna and Gusti, Ilushka (as she was then called) grows up against ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

An Innocent in Newfoundland: Even More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters

By David McFadden

Fans of the Toronto poet, non-fiction writer, and all-round wit David McFadden have become familiar with his trademark travel-narrative style through his previous books An Innocent in Scotland and An Innocent in Ireland. McFadden now ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America

By Robert MacNeil

This slim memoir focuses on the career of American newsman Robert MacNeil, most notably the former co-anchor of PBS’s MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Born on the east coast of Canada, MacNeil has spent much of his life ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Spaces in Between: Selected Poems, 1965-2001

By Stephen Scobie

In a country rich in, and appreciative of, its poets and poetry, Victoria writer Stephen Scobie has never quite received the attention that he is due. A noted academic, and winner of the 1980 Governor ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Mr. & Mrs. Gg

By Frank Davey

Writer, poet, and professor Frank Davey puts Canada’s Governor General, Adrienne Clarkson, and her husband, novelist and philosopher John Ralston Saul, under the microscope in the economical, occasionally snippy, but smartly argued Mr. & Mrs. ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Alchemy of Happiness

By Marilyn Bowering

Alchemy. The word conjures images of medieval laboratories, of quasi-magical transformations, and, perhaps most importantly, of failure. For despite their many important contributions to modern science, the medieval alchemists ultimately failed in their primary goal: ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

The Island Walkers

By John Bemrose

There was a novel published a few years ago called Under the Skin. Written by Michel Faber, it has perhaps the most original premise of any piece of fiction in the last five, six, maybe ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Afraid of the Day: A Daughter’s Journey

By Nancy Graham

Severe depression afflicts between five and 10% of the Canadian population at any given time, yet the illness largely remains a taboo subject, one that elicits far less sympathy and support than such maladies as ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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