Reviews

The Continuation of Love by Other Means

There’s a thesis to be written, if it hasn’t been already, on the theme of fascism in recent Canadian fiction. Several Timothy Findley novels, most notably Famous Last Words, dealt powerfully with the subject. Michael ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All Stirred up: Over 150 of the Best Recipes from the Women’s Culinary Network

By Laura Buckley and Madeleine Greey, eds.

The Women’s Culinary Network is an international group of women food professionals (most based in Toronto) who have aligned themselves, according to their chairwoman, Nettie Cronish, “to share professional experience, knowledge and information that could ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Myth of Ability: Nurturing Mathematical Talent in Every Child

By John Mighton

John Mighton is the founder of JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Mathematical Prodigies), an expanding educational charity that has grown to provide free math tutoring to 12 inner-city Toronto schools. The Myth of Ability is the story ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Forever Young: The “teen-aging” of Modern Culture

By Marcel Danesi

In Forever Young, University of Toronto professor Marcel Danesi aims to expose our society’s view of adolescence and its associated “problems” as an artificial construct perpetuated by a media-driven culture. This is worsened, Danesi argues, ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Universal Recipients

By Dana Bath

What if short story authors were forbidden to create characters – particularly women – who cannot get over themselves? And what if there was an embargo on finely crafted little tales of anxiousness, dread, chill, ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Garbo Laughs

By Elizabeth Hay

Garbo Laughs draws us right into old Ottawa South and onto the Gold family’s front porch. It is fitted out, like a ship, with every necessity of summer life – hammocks, workbench, outdoor faucet, library ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blue Becomes You

By Bettina von Kampen

Blue Becomes You is another of the small-town novels that are nearly as numerous as the communities that inspire them. Sixty-three-year-old Charlotte Weiss has arrhythmia and must retire after more than 40 years as head ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Still Life with June

By Darren Greer

Cameron Dodds is a 31-year old writer whose work has appeared in crappy little magazines that pay in comp copies. He’s a former drug addict who is now working nights at a Salvation Army Drug ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Inanna

By Kim Echlin

The ancient kingdom of Sumer, located in what is now Iraq, gave the world its first form of written language. Sumerian cuneiform was used to record the world’s first written poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh. ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Alms

By Cynthia MacDonald

Alms is set in the 1980s in Toronto. Its sad-sack protagonist, Martine Craythorn, describes her people as “the late-century rich – back-patters and horse-laughers.” In an age of ambition and acquisition, Martine is obsessed only ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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