Reviews

The In-between World of Vikram Lall

There’s always a risk that any book set in Africa will have a soft-focus photograph on its cover and a title like The Weight of Water, or The Smell of Hibiscus, or Water Lightly Flecked ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation of a Kind

By Joel Yanofsky

Sure, most men lead lives of quiet desperation, but fans of serious literature have honed quiet and desperate into a science. There’s no better reminder of this than the literary-stalker bio, that slightly creepy sub-genre ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Painting the Dog: The Best Stories of Leon Rooke

By Leon Rooke

Leon Rooke has achieved a status similar to that of a difficult singer-songwriter who can claim legions of loyal fans, yet limited mainstream visibility. This collection of short stories – culled from among the hundred ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Bonnie Stern’s Essentials of Home Cooking

By Bonnie Stern

Bonnie Stern has finally seen the light: fat is beautiful. The home economist and chef who made her name by preaching the dogma of low-fat in three “heart smart” cookbooks has dredged her newest book, ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Ride the Wave: Take Control in the Acceleration Age

By Sherry Cooper

In the past decade or so, the formula for publishing business books has been refined to this: take one well-known personality, offer a route to financial health, and market aggressively. All too often, though, books ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Self-directed Rrsps: Straight Talk on Making Them Pay off for You

By S.E. Woods

FINANCIAL PLANNING BOOKS have become a fixture of the fall market heralding the tax preparation season to come. The offerings include books of self-promoting advice published by or for mutual fund vendors; better ones merge ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Flowers on My Grave: How an Ojibwa Boy’s Death Helped Break the Silence on Child Abuse

By Ruth Teichroeb

Ruth Teichroeb covered the longest inquest in Manitoba history for the Winnipeg Free Press. When it was over, she still had questions about the suicide of 14-year-old Lester Desjarlais and many others like him. She ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Native Peoples

24 Hours in Cyberspace: Paintings on the Walls of the Digital Cave

By Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt

Some 10 years ago, Rick Smolan’s name appeared on coffee tables everywhere when he launched the Day in the Life series of photography books. Smolan’s latest installment, 24 Hours in Cyberspace, is as ambitious an ... Read More »

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

World Wide Web Bible, Second Edition

By Brian Pfaffenberger

Just when you think the hype swirling around the World Wide Web can’t get any bigger, it does. TV commercials are full of ever-greater numbers of URLs, radio programs endlessly encourage listeners to “check out ... Read More »

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

The Canoe: A Living Tradition

By John Jennings

History is often told as a chess game or battle of wills between great leaders, but as intellectuals such as Marshall McLuhan and Ursula Franklin have demonstrated, societies are more likely to be transformed by ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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