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Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

For over a decade, journalist Mark Abley has been worrying about the extinction of languages. “Each time we lose a language/the ghosts who made use of it/cast a new bell,” he wrote in his poem ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

A Stone’s Throw: The Enduring Nature of Myth

By Ross Laird

Of the four elements, earth is the most silent. And yet writing and painting found on the Earth’s stones are also our only form of communication with lost ancestors. Like this, its central symbol, Ross ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ An Adoration

By Nancy Huston

Already a bestseller in France, Nancy Huston’s latest novel is both an affecting portrait of real and sympathetic characters and literary high art. Taking the form of the direct testimony of witnesses at a murder ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister

By Maggie de Vries

Robert Pickton has been accused of crimes that, if he’s convicted, would make him the worst serial killer in Canadian history. But few Canadians could likely name even one of the women he is charged ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey

By Cecil Harris

Things have never been better for black players in professional hockey. In 2002, Jarome Iginla became the first black scoring champion in the National Hockey League. In May 2003, Anson Carter scored the game-winning goal ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Fiction for Lovers: Freshly Cut Tales of Flesh, Fear, Larvae and Love

By Tony Burgess

“Contaminated but beautiful in the television light” is how the narrator of “Bug Day,” the penultimate story in Tony Burgess’s fourth book, describes the face of his lover. He could just as easily be describing ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Money Players: How Hockey’s Greatest Stars Beat the Nhl at Its Own Game

By Bruce Dowbiggin

The Calgary-based sportswriter Bruce Dowbiggin is pushing hard to become Canada’s next great chronicler of our national pastime. Dowbiggin, a frequent hockey commentator on radio and television and a writer for the Calgary Herald, has ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Opium Lady

By Joanne Soper-Cook

Imagine moving into a house and finding an old family photo album tucked deep in the corner of a dusty bedroom closet, flipping through the photos, and inventing intricate stories for the strangers in the ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Ways of the Wilderness: A Personal Journey Through Religion and Literature

By Anne McPherson

Ways of the Wilderness, the new book from Ontario writer and art curator Anne McPherson, is rooted in McPherson’s academic work some 40 years ago. Inspired by H.A. Williams’ The True Wilderness, McPherson realized that ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Women in a World at War: Seven Dispatches from the Front

By Madeleine Gagnon, Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, trans.

Women in a World at War, by Quebec writer Madeleine Gagnon, is an extraordinary work. Less investigative journalism than an extended effort to view the war-torn world through a poet’s gaze, the book crosses borders ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History

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