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Shrimpy and Paul and Friends

For many years prolific Canadian underground cartoonist Marc Bell’s playful, circuitous “Shrimpy and Paul” comics have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and zines – venues that never did justice to the labyrinthine structure and lush density ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Disarmament

By John Terpstra

The bleak, hopeful town of Hamilton, Ontario – with its steel mills and slowly resurgent parklands – finds an apt poet laureate in John Terpstra. His seventh collection, Disarmament, focuses mainly on the city’s landscapes ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

The Dark Side: The Personal Price of a Political Life

By Steve Paikin

The Dark Side should be a more interesting book than it is. The subject matter is inherently engaging: failed governments and failed marriages, backroom betrayals and public humiliation – all the worst things about living ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

By Mark Abley

For over a decade, journalist Mark Abley has been worrying about the extinction of languages. “Each time we lose a language/the ghosts who made use of it/cast a new bell,” he wrote in his poem ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

The Border: Canada, the U.s. and Adventures Along the 49th Parallel

By James Laxer

Things have been a little defensive along both sides of “the world’s longest undefended border” of late. According to Toronto political scientist and journalist James Laxer, that’s hardly a novel situation, and it’s unlikely to ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Prairie People: A Celebration of My Homeland

By Robert Collins

Veteran journalist Robert Collins has compiled a kind of field guide to the prairie provinces that is both homage and mythology. The book consists of short pieces that are collected in chapters with such titles ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History

Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari

By Christopher Ondaatje

Ernest Hemingway made two game-hunting safaris in Africa, both through Kenya, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), and Uganda. The first was in 1933, the second 1953. For Hemingway in Africa, Christopher Ondaatje made a single photographic safari, ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Tommy: The Life and Times of Tommy Douglas

By Walter Stewart

Tommy Douglas was the one-time leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) party – the precursor of today’s NDP. He has also had his fair share of coverage in the press and in a few ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike

By Jennifer Duncan

Jennifer Duncan is the sort of person you’d like to meet around a campfire or at a cozy pub on a snowy night – a true woman of the Yukon, a woman who can tell ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground

By J. Edward Chamberlin

Ted Chamberlin teaches comparative literature at the University of Toronto and has worked on native land claims in the United States, Canada, Africa, and Australia. He is also a former poetry editor for Saturday Night ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History

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Quill and Quire

Shrimpy and Paul and Friends

Disarmament

The Dark Side: The Personal Price of a Political Life

Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

The Border: Canada, the U.s. and Adventures Along the 49th Parallel

Prairie People: A Celebration of My Homeland

Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari

Tommy: The Life and Times of Tommy Douglas

Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike

If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground

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