Reviews

Can You Take Me There, Now?

“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

A Woman’s Place: Seventy Years in the Lives of Canadian Women

By Sylvia Fraser

Chatelaine’s herstoryTo celebrate Chatelaine’s 70th anniversary, Sylvia Fraser has compiled excerpts from past issues of the magazine as a time capsule of how Canadian women have and haven’t changed. A Woman’s Place: Seventy Years in ... Read More »

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

Organized Crime and American Power: A History

By Michael Woodiwiss

The process of deconstructing popular myths is a thankless task often met with wide public resistance. Luckily Michael Woodiwiss has risen to the task with an accessible analysis of the ways in which concepts like ... Read More »

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

The Natashas: The New Global Sex Trade

By Victor Malarek

Reading Victor Malarek’s The Natashas is a little like watching an investigative report by Geraldo Rivera: The facts are all there, but sometimes it’s hard to hear them through all the moral indignation. That’s because ... Read More »

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

Editing Canadian English (2nd Edition)

It’s a family legend that my husband married me because I could spell and I knew how to punctuate. With the advent of computer spellchecks, he’s joked occasionally that my usefulness is somewhat diminished these ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Light-crossing

By Michael Redhill

Given the busy year he’s had – publishing his first novel, producing a play, editing Brick magazine through an impressive reformatting, and fathering his second son – one might forgive Michael Redhill for being off ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Selling Online: How to Become a Successul E-commerce Merchant in Canada

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

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

Vixen

By Lynette D’anna

Readers with an insatiable thirst for darkness and depravity might enjoy Vixen, Lynette D’anna’s novel that explores an obsessive relationship in several short vignettes. Those wishing to avoid another trip to the literary circle of ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Place

By Geoffrey James

Toronto photographer Geoffrey James recently won the Roloff Beny Award – and a cool $30,000 – for Paris, his portrait of the changing face of the City of Lights. In Place, James explores the humbler, ... Read More »

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

★ 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

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