Coffee-table books dedicated to the works of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven have been something of a Canadian cottage industry for decades now. It’s hard to imagine at this point, but as David ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Weapons of Mass Distraction ends with the words “yes, things really do go better with Coke.” That sentence sums up both the thesis and the moral of National Post editor Matthew Fraser’s most recent book. ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History
The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss taught us that food not only keeps people alive, but with all the associated rituals and myths of preparation and consumption, it also keeps peoples alive – that is, food is ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink
In a story unlikely to endear her to editors of the business pages, journalist Madelaine Drohan tackles the growing corporate use of mercenary armies to protect their business interests. Making a Killing focuses on Africa, ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History
Between April and August 1994, while the international community looked on, 800,000 people were systematically murdered in a small African country. In Shake Hands with the Devil, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire, the former Force ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
No topic elicits a broader array of responses than that of sex. From prim-lipped silence to raunchy histrionics, perhaps no nation embodies these differing attitudes more than Canada. Or at least that is the tack ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Reference
So many catalogues and coffee table books have been published on the art of Bill Reid that it is hard to believe that this scholarly text by Maria Tippett is the first complete biography on ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The word “cowboy” comes freighted with so many different meanings. For immigrants from Europe, Asia, or Africa, it can be romance personified, a somewhat updated version of the medieval knight, out riding the range, communing ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Giggy Andrewes is the eccentric matriarch of the Winter Garden, an estate where she boards her nephew Jem, his friend Cora, Jem’s lover Rob, and a dog named Chappy. Along with an odd cast of ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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