The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

The post-9/11 chill that muted some critics of corporate business practices did nothing to stop professor Joel Bakan from pursuing his own thesis: that corporations are, by structure, nature, and law, pathological creatures with zero ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Devil is Clever: A Memoir of My Romanian Mother

By Kenneth Radu

Kenneth Radu’s poetic manipulation of fact starts with the title of his disturbing memoir. Though she spoke more Romanian than English throughout her life, Annie Corches was born near Fort Qu’Appelle, in Canada’s oldest Romanian ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Doctor Bloom’s Story

By Don Coles

In his first novel, poet Don Coles interweaves a compelling story about an abused wife with the reflections of his narrator, the aging Dutch doctor Nicolaas Bloom, on saintliness, masochism, and the life and work ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life

By Trevor Cole

The eponymous protagonist of Trevor Cole’s first novel is a theatre actor who never slips out of character. With others, he performs; when alone, he rehearses. He has a bewildering capacity to view his life ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kameleon Man

By Kim Barry Brunhuber

Kameleon Man, the debut novel from broadcast journalist and writer Kim Brunhuber, is an insightful and affecting treatment of the issues surrrounding race, gender, and sexuality in the 21st century. That it is set against ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Muriella Pent

By Russell Smith

Russell Smith is one of those rare figures on the Canadian cultural scene who has the capacity to really enrage people. From far-flung Globe and Mail readers, who see him as an arrogant Toronto art ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Stone of the Stars

By Alison Baird

With The Stone of the Stars, young adult author Alison Baird steps into the adult fantasy genre. The first in a trilogy, the novel revolves around a race to find the legendary Stone of the ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Dreamlife of Bridges

By Robert Strandquist

Despite their different trajectories, the main characters of Vancouver poet Robert Strandquist’s new novel quickly come to realize a simple truth: there is always further to fall. For Leo, middle-aged, divorced, and shattered by the ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dime Store Magic

By Kelley Armstrong

This lazily paced yet entertaining novel offers readers a detailed view of the shadowy world of covens and cabals. The book is a departure from Kelley Armstrong’s first two novels, which chronicled the adventures of ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Second Life of Samuel Tyne

By Esi Edugyan

Samuel Tyne is one of the oddest protagonists you will find in a Canadian novel of this or any other publishing season. A native of Africa’s Gold Coast (which we now call Ghana, though he ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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