Same-Sex Marriage: The Personal and the Political

Journalists like to think of themselves as writing “the first draft of history,” as the cliché goes. This is not necessarily a good approach to book-length studies of current events. In Same-Sex Marriage, authors Kathleen ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Cook This: Recipes for the Goodtime Girl

By Amy Rosen

The target audience for this cookbook is the post-university, single, female, Sex and the City wannabe. Although freelance writer Amy Rosen is cordon bleu-trained and the recipes she offers might have unlimited appeal for all ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Harvest of a Quiet Eye: The Cabin as Sanctuary

By Lawrence Scanlan

There are already so many great memoirs chronicling humanity’s attempts to connect with the natural world that it’s an enormous challenge to produce noteworthy new work on the subject. Harvest of a Quiet Eye doesn’t ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Heartways: The Exploits of Genny O.

By Rita McBride, ed.

Books about sex and romance should be exceptionally smart and dirty or exceptionally mindless and dirty. This self-proclaimed “faux romance,” a collaborative novel edited by conceptual artist Rita McBride, hits neither mark.McBride snagged a number ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Core Samples

By Patti Grayson

In this debut story collection, Manitoba writer and actor Patti Grayson delivers 18 stories set in the fictional town of Hematite. At first blush, Hematite seems like an average sort of place, a town organized ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Wally

By Greg Kramer

Wally Greene, closing in on his fifties, spends his days in his workshop building props for Vancouver’s Phoenix Theatre. It’s 1987, Vancouver is deep in post-Expo torpor, and Wally’s life is suspended between two women ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Look for Me

By Edeet Ravel

This is the sophomore installment in Edeet Ravel’s Tel Aviv trilogy, themed around life in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her brilliant first novel in the series, Ten Thousand Lovers, published in 2003, met with terrific international ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Brahma’s Dream

By Shree Ghatage

On the eve of independence in the late 1940s, India was swept by events of epic political and cultural significance: the end of British rule, the assassination of Gandhi, the collision of modernism with age-old ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Making Light of Tragedy

By Jessica Grant

The Journey Prize-winning story “My Husband’s Jump,” centering on a ski-jumper who never lands, proves a pace-setting opening to this first collection by Jessica Grant. Like most of these brisk 23 tales, the story’s characters ... Read More »

July 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Hatbox Letters

By Beth Powning

The literary device of letters or diaries speaking across the years to someone from a later time is as old and hoary as fiction itself. To Beth Powning’s considerable credit, The Hatbox Letters makes the ... Read More »

July 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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