Reviews

The Human Stain

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

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

Simplify & Celebrate

By Michael Schwartzentruber and Kathy Sinclair, eds.

In the 1960s and 70s, young, middle-class North Americans got the message loud and clear: follow your hearts, do whatever you want, drop out, be happy. The children of post-war boom years, they were well ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

The Book of War Letters: 100 Years of Private Canadian Correspondence

By Audrey and Paul Grescoe

The Book of War Letters is the ambitious second entry in Paul and Audrey Grescoe’s planned trilogy of collected Canadian letters. Spanning this country’s entry into the Boer war in 1899 to the death of ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: History

Director’s Cut

By David Solway

Few critics match the moral urgency of David Solway, whose poetry reviews constitute an anti-canon to the literati’s assessment of its own merits. Solway’s debunking of celebrated poets, from Atwood to Zwicky, has earned him ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

In the Name of Salomé

By Julia Alvarez

With In the Name of Salomé, Latin American writer Julia Alvarez returns to the same ground she covered with In the Time of the Butterflies. Here, as there, Alvarez fictionalizes a historical story of women ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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