Reviews

Weapons of Mass Distraction: Soft Power and American Empire

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

★ Homebaking: The Artful Mix of Flour and Tradition Around the World

By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

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

Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business

By Madelaine Drohan

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

★ Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

By Roméo Dallaire

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

Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian

By Maria Tippett

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 Naked Truth: The Untold Story of Sex in Canada

By Chris Gudgeon

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

The Last Cowboy

By Lee Gowan

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

★ The Winter Gardeners

By Dennis Denisoff

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

All My Friends Are Superheroes

By Andrew Kaufman

As they appear in Andrew Kaufman’s debut novel, Toronto’s superheroes are a rather sad-sack bunch. There’s The Couch Surfer, with the mysterious power to survive on nothing but handfuls of breakfast cereal and slices of ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A House by the Sea

By Sikeena Karmali

Zahra, the narrator of Sikeena Karmali’s A House by the Sea, wants nothing more than “to take my home off my back and lay it down, here, lay my burden down and sort through it.” ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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