Reviews

Angel in the Sun: Turner’s Vision of History

War is not a picturesque scene. Yet J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), an eminent historical landscape painter of the romantic era, managed to draw beauty out of darkness without glorifying it. Scorched with symbolism and allegory, the ... Read More »

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

Can You Take Me There, Now?

By Matthew Firth

“Spent the rest of the night guzzling coffee at a Horton’s, reading Bukowski, trying to mind my own business.” With this literary invocation, Matthew Firth posits himself as a contemporary Charles Bukowski, a chronicler of ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Solitaire: The Intimate Lives of Single Women

By Marion Botsford Fraser

Toronto freelance writer and broadcaster Marion Botsford Fraser spent three years criss-crossing the country exploring the often misrepresented lives of today’s single women. The result is Solitaire, a book that offers some of the most ... Read More »

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

Navigating a New World: Canada’s Global Future

By Lloyd Axworthy

Each passing month brings a more urgent need for the world to puzzle out the future of its beleaguered multilateral institutions. So it’s tempting to pick up a book by Lloyd Axworthy, Canada’s foreign affairs ... Read More »

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

The Canadian Writer’s Market: The Essential Guide for Freelance Writers (14th Edition)

By Sandra B. Tooze

It has been said that to be a freelance writer in Canada is a good way to starve to death slowly. The Canadian Writer’s Market has long been an effective tool to help freelancers fend ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

★ All Heart: My Story

By Michael Clemons

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

Days into Flatspin

By Ken Babstock

With his second collection of poetry, Days into Flatspin, Toronto poet Ken Babstock proves himself to be one of the “lords of the little gestures” that he cites in the book’s epigraph. His poems are ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Shopping Online for Canadians for Dummies

By Fiorella Grossi, Marguerite Pigeon, Joseph Lowery

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 Final Confession of Mabel Stark

By Robert Hough

Journalist Robert Hough has played an ironic joke on himself in his first novel, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark. Stark was one of history’s most famous tiger trainers, and her act was the centre-ring ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Waiting for Gertrude

By Bill Richardson

In Waiting for Gertrude, Vancouver writer, broadcaster, and notorious cat-fancier Bill Richardson envisions Paris’s famed Père-Lachaise Cemetery as inhabited by the souls of its notable occupants reincarnated into the bodies of feral cats. Chopin has ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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