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Mp3: The Definitive Guide

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

Seacoasts

By Pierre Berton

Canada’s coastline is the longest in the world, and yet we don’t view ourselves as a maritime nation. This is the paradox at the heart of Pierre Berton’s Seacoasts. In stark contrast with the lush ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Louis Riel: A Comic-strip Biography

By Chester Brown

Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography is yet another landmark work by Chester Brown, an artist considered to be one of the greatest cartoonists living today. This is not hyperbole: each of his major works – ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Grounded in Eire: The Amazing Story of Two Pows in Ireland During World War Ii

By Ralph Keefer

Judging from what I saw in a recent visit, the Irish seem to have erased their country’s neutral stance in the Second World War from their memories. Everyone from President de Valera down to the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Alien Invasion: How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario

By Ruth Cohen, ed.

While it can be argued that the half-dozen years of Ontario’s Harris government have produced little of lasting value, the same might be said for critical works on a government whose premier is commonly referred ... Read More »

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

The Cyberspace Lexicon: An Illustrated Dictionary of Terms from Multimedia to Virtual Reality

By Bob Cotton and Richard Oliver

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

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