Reviews

The Last Amigo: Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal

Writing a book about a political scandal comes with its own challenges, including the aggressive research involved and the process of rearranging those facts into a compelling narrative. Writing a book about a Canadian political ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Forward Through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall Mcluhan

By Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart, eds.

BOOK DESIGN TODAY is driven by magazine design. Magazines, with their quick cycles and relatively low production costs, are highly responsive to design trends and consumer caprice. And they’re ephemeral – you can correct your ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

By Stephen Bown

The great scourge of long-distance ocean voyages in the age of sail was scurvy. The vitamin-C-deficiency disease killed two-thirds of Vasco da Gama’s crew in the 15th century. When Ferdinand Magellan made his historic circumnavigation ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: History

Your Last Day on Earth

By Carla Hartsfield

Toronto poet Carla Hartsfield is a true Renaissance woman. Her biography states that she is, by turns, a poet, painter, songwriter, and classical/pop musician. Sometimes, as she demonstrates in her third collection of poetry, Your ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Mp3: The Definitive Guide

By Scot Hacker

MP3 technology is revolutionizing the music business. Now, with the click of a mouse and a little expertise, listeners can download their favourite tunes from a cyberspace menu of thousands of songs and either listen ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Origin of Waves

By Austin Clarke

Austin Clarke is not the first African-Canadian novelist, though he is one of the most esteemed – and most prolific. While Clarke follows early Ontario writers Martin Delany and William Stowers in chronology (they issued ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Human Stain

By Philip Roth

It’s the summer of 1998 – that Clinton-Lewinsky summer – and at a small New England college another formerly respected, powerful man faces disgrace. His offence is a classroom remark, taken out of context and ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hotel Paradiso

By Gregor Robinson

A scene in Hotel Paradiso pits two characters against each other in a game of literary allusions. One makes a subtle literary reference and the other guesses its author and/or the book in which it ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lie with Me

By Tamara Faith Berger

Fiction shot through with graphic sexual language, no matter how literary the author’s intentions, runs the risk of being pigeonholed by an either/or question: Is it art or is it porn? An affirmative nod to ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Anxious Gravity

By Jeff Wells

Reflecting back on his life, twentysomething Gideon Gast finds that, when it comes right down to it, he’s spent most of his time “in anticipation and remembrance of sex.” Caught between his born-again mom and ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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