Reviews

★ Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

There’s nothing like a good sports biography to get a fan’s blood pumping. A well-written account of the sporting life can prompt fond reminiscences of one’s own athletic past, call up daydreams where you’re the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Poetic Voices of the Maritimes: A Selection of Contemporary Poetry

By Allison Mitcham,Theresia Quigley, eds.

With the Canadian penchant for regionalism, organizing the national literature in terms of geography is a natural impulse. The sense of place is such an important aspect of this country’s writing that location often provides ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

The Net User’s Guide to Buying, Selling, and Trading Collectibles

By R. J. Gulliver

Some people believe the World Wide Web will usher in a new era of peace and social justice. Some say it’s the greatest invention since the taming of fire. Others say simply, “Let’s go shopping!” ... Read More »

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

The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum

By Kim Izzo and Ceri Marsh

Decorum is something you don’t hear much about anymore – it’s the kind of word that’s associated with white gloves and stodgy rules of etiquette. However, as Ceri Marsh and Kim Izzo reveal, modern decorum ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Fairy Ring

By Martine Desjardins,Fred Reed and David Homel, trans.

From the opening image – a dream in which Clara Weiss thrusts her hands deep into a heap of dead leaves and withdraws them covered in slime – Martine Desjardins’ Fairy Ring juxtaposes shocking physical ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

City’s Great Spaces

By John Sewell

In the mid-1990s, former Toronto mayor and left-wing political columnist John Sewell conducted an indefatigable (but ultimately unsuccessful) campaign against the amalgamation of the city’s municipal governments. He peppered his criticism of the province’s proposal ... Read More »

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

Home

By Mark Macdonald

Vancouver author Mark Macdonald’s first novel, Flat, transformed the architecture of the apartment building into an effective and subtle symbol for, amongst other things, the essential strangeness of urban life. Desire, compartmentalized and isolated inside ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Dangerous Lives: War and the Men and Women Who Report It

By Anthony Feinstein

On the one side, various hells on earth: Rwanda, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Mozambique, The Ivory Coast, Somalia, Chechnya, Colombia. On the other side, the established democracies: health, wealth, individual rights, social order, even ... Read More »

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

Writing Freelance

By Christine Adamec

Kids today: when it comes to career planning, they can easily acquire accessible, thorough, and inexpensive self-help guides that make the whole prospect of life as a writer halfway enticing. Compare and contrast to the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference