Before I Wake

It’s a parent’s worst nightmare: one moment, a child is skipping along the pavement; the next, he or she is obliterated by a speeding car. In the instant that three-year-old Sherry Barrett becomes a hit-and-run ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Writing Life: Celebrated Canadian and International Authors on Writing and Life

By Constance Rooke, ed.

Reading this collection of essays and memoirs on the vagaries, challenges, and joys of the writing life, a composite portrait of the Canadian Author slowly emerges. Curious, slightly earnest, lovingly self-absorbed but concerned with the ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

By Anita Rau Badami

The Air India disaster and its frustrating 21-year aftermath has been the subject of at least half a dozen non-fiction books of investigative journalism in this country, and they are still coming. But Anita Rau ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman

By Ruth Panofsky

Ruth Panofsky has already produced an annotated bibliography of the novelist Adele Wiseman (who died in 1992) and edited Wiseman’s correspondence with Margaret Laurence. Now she turns to a study of Wiseman’s tangled business relationships. ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Daggers of the Mind: Psychiatry and the Myth of Mental Disease

By Dr. Gordon Warme

Stating unequivocally that there is no such thing as mental disease is a pretty ballsy thing for a psychiatrist to do. When said psychiatrist is also a prominent professor at the University of Toronto’s medical ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity

By Stephen A. Marshall

Insects is not a book for the merely ento-curious. Stephen A. Marshall, an entomology professor at the University of Guelph for almost 25 years, has assembled here an exhaustive – and somewhat exhausting, given the ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell

By Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray has produced an exhaustive, multidimensional portrait of the great Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who put down deep roots in Canada – initially in Brantford, where the first telephone call was made, but mostly ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ When the Rivers Run Dry: Journeys into the Heart of the World’s Water Crisis

By Fred Pearce

From the time we’re old enough to go to school, we learn that 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, and that a similar percentage of the human body is made up of ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ No Need to Trouble the Heart: A Loving Journey Through Sickness and Health

By Patrick Conlon

No Need to Trouble the Heart is Patrick Conlon’s compelling account of a loved one’s rapid descent to near-death and long journey back to health. Jim O’Neill, Conlon’s partner of 30 years, one day “settled ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Creamsicle Stick Shivs

By John Stiles

The notes in the back of John Stiles’s second poetry collection tell us that “the poems in this book have been performed in clubs and bars and cafés in Toronto and London, England.” This emphasis ... Read More »

July 17, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

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