Reviews

Vis À Vis: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness

Don McKay recognizes early on in this collection of essays and poems that calling oneself a nature poet labels you more a fool than a thoughtful translator of that “grain of experience” available in the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Kid Stuff

By Tom Walmsley

Occasionally you hear a critic claim that Canadian fiction is lacking grit and danger. Tom Walmsley’s new novel, his first in a decade, is the latest case for dispelling that idea. The book is called ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Design in Canada: Fifty Years from Tea Kettles to Task Chairs

By Rachel Gotlieb and Cora Golden

Design in Canada is an ambitious project: a richly illustrated survey, in under 300 pages, of half a century of Canadian design. The high quality of the result is a testament to the authors’ comprehensive ... Read More »

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

Paul Martin: The Power of Ambition

By John Gray

The first thing that strikes you about John Gray’s biography of Paul Martin is just how well written it is. Open the book at random, read any paragraph, and be prepared to be amazed. For ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Caring for Profit: How Corporations Are Taking Over Canada’s Health Care System

By Colleen Fuller

Medicare in Canada has been a hybrid system ever since it began in 1968. Governments pay for health care but the money goes to companies, small business people (such as doctors), and non-profit hospitals that ... Read More »

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

Customer Relationship Management: A Strategic Imperative in the World of E-business

By Stanley A. Brown

I used to joke, when I was working full-time on the sales floor, that I had the phrase “the customer is always right” tattooed on the inside of my eyelids so I would be reminded ... Read More »

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

★ The Haunted Hillbilly

By Derek McCormack

At 124 generously spaced pages, The Haunted Hillbilly – Derek McCormack’s first novel – demonstrates with style and sardonic wit that it’s not about the length, it’s all in how you use it. McCormack, the ... Read More »

October 29, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Game to Play on the Tracks

By Lorna Jackson

Twice in this vivid, pyrotechnic novel, women walk into knitting shops that are heaped and hung like Aladdin’s cave with skeins – brightly dyed, flecked, handspun, synthetic. Proprietresses pull patterns from drawers, dispense yarns and ... Read More »

October 29, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World’s Last Unchallenged River

By Colin Angus

Colin Angus is, at the age of 32, a seasoned explorer and author with a habit of traversing some of the world’s most dangerous waterways. Angus’s second book, Lost in Mongolia, charts a hazardous 5,500-kilometre ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Searching for Michael Jackson’s Nose, and Other Preoccupations of Our Celebrity-mad Culture

By Scott Feschuk

Scott Feschuk can best be described as a Canadian enthusiast of American television. He has been amusing readers of the National Post with his wry column devoted to pop culture musings. Searching for Michael Jackson’s ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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