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The Miserable Mill: The Fourth in a Series of Unfortunate Events

By Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist, illus.

The latest misadventure of the Baudelaire orphans, the fourth in what will be a series of 13, begins in a town called Paltryville at the doorstep of their new guardian, a lumber magnate named “Sir.” ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada’s Writers

By Roy MacSkimming

If Roy MacSkimming wanted a pithy epigraph to begin his comprehensive history of the English Canadian publishing industry, he could always use the shopworn “Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose.” Since the industry’s ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: History

★ Garbo Laughs

By Elizabeth Hay

Garbo Laughs draws us right into old Ottawa South and onto the Gold family’s front porch. It is fitted out, like a ship, with every necessity of summer life – hammocks, workbench, outdoor faucet, library ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Immigrant Blues

By Goran Simic, Amela Simic , trans.

An unremitting, relentless nostalgia permeates Immigrant Blues, Bosnian poet Goran Simic’s first collection since his Sprinting from the Graveyard encapsulated the siege of Sarajevo in 1997. The new book records a more reflective struggle – ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Forever Young: The “teen-aging” of Modern Culture

By Marcel Danesi

In Forever Young, University of Toronto professor Marcel Danesi aims to expose our society’s view of adolescence and its associated “problems” as an artificial construct perpetuated by a media-driven culture. This is worsened, Danesi argues, ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin’s Lieutenant

By Peter Steele

Whitehorse author Peter Steele is a biographer who has done his share of northern travelling. In The Man Who Mapped the Arctic, Steele turns his attention to one of the hardiest 19th-century Arctic explorers, George ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

By Kim Vicente

Notwithstanding the soporific title, this book on technology is a lot of fun. Professor of human factors engineering – what we lay people often call ergonomics – Kim Vicente gives readers plenty of real-life examples ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Dreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest

By David Spaner

There’s a telling moment in David Spaner’s book on the history of Vancouver filmmaking when West Coast writer and director Bruce Sweeney arrives at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival’s opening-night gala with his award-winning ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Aids Activist: Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community

By Ann Silversides

At a time when one of the largest annual gatherings in Toronto is the Gay Pride parade, it’s significant to recall that such an outpouring of support for the lesbian and gay community would not ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Amazing International Space Station

By YES Mag editors, Rose Cowles, illus.

News stories and TV documentaries about the International Space Station have often focused on two main aspects of the $100-billion project: the complicated technology that has kept it in orbit around Earth since 1998 and ... Read More »

November 19, 2003

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