McLuhan’s Children: The Greenpeace Message and the Media

These days, exhuming the intellectual corpse of media theorist Marshall McLuhan has become a cottage industry in publishing. As the patron saint of Wired magazine and the self-described mentor of numerous media pundits, McLuhan has ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

David and Jonathan: A Story of Love and Power in Ancient Israel

By Stephen Schecter

This, Stephen Schecter’s fourth book, and his first book of poetry, is daunting indeed. At 188 pages, this long poem was a labour of love for the author, and is a challenge for the reader.David ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Science Lessons

By W.H. New

Past midnight he stands outside, breathing awaythe day, scanning the broad wash of starshorizon to horizon...This quotation from “Astronomy,” one of a sequence of 80 sonnets in W.H. New’s first collection of poetry, entitled Science ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Sam and Angie

By Margaret Sweatman

Sam and Angie is all about alienation – about living on the surface of events. It’s also about the inner world of a marriage that is unravelling. The mood of the book is disturbing and ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gelignite Jack

By Paul Davies

Paul Davies seems a sort of Renaissance man. Born in 1954, he has already had several careers, including that of antiquarian bookseller, research analyst in frontier oil and gas, and book designer. He began publishing ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Original Six: True Stories from Hockey’s Classic Era

By Paul Quarrington, ed.

As the National Hockey League expands to cities that once seemed no less exotic than Timbuktu, many Canadians have adopted a weepy nostalgia for what the Hanson brothers (in the 1977 movie Slap Shot) described ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Murder at the Movies

By A.E. Eddenden

Inspector Albert V. Tretheway stands out from the growing crowd of made-in-Canada mystery series sleuths. At 6'5" and 290-plus pounds, the 39-year-old transplanted Brit is too big to miss, for one thing. But it’s a ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Beaming Sonny Home

By Cathie Pelletier

New Englanders, I’ve found in living among them, are not the most garrulous breed of American. And as one native-born woman informed me recently, speech is considered downright ostentatious in the state of Maine.How, then, ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Broken Windows

By Patricia Nolan

When I think of successful literary portrayals of devastated lives, I think of Raymond Carver, Dorothy Allison, Greg Hollingshead. After reading Broken Windows, I will also think of Kanata, Ontario writer Patricia Nolan.Broken Windows is ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Object of Your Love

By Dorothy Speak

Ottawa writer Dorothy Speak was born in Seaforth on Lake Huron. This is her second collection of stories. Perhaps it’s just a dangerous presumption we are inclined to make about provincial towns, since they’ve produced ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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