The Sink: Money Laundering, Organized Crime and Canada’s Caribbean

Jeffrey Robinson’s The Sink is a follow-up to his 1996 bestseller The Laundrymen, which looked at the bankers, accountants, and other seemingly upstanding functionaries who aid and abet a multi-trillion-dollar dirty economy that ranks second ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation of a Kind

By Joel Yanofsky

Sure, most men lead lives of quiet desperation, but fans of serious literature have honed quiet and desperate into a science. There’s no better reminder of this than the literary-stalker bio, that slightly creepy sub-genre ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Natashas: The New Global Sex Trade

By Victor Malarek

Reading Victor Malarek’s The Natashas is a little like watching an investigative report by Geraldo Rivera: The facts are all there, but sometimes it’s hard to hear them through all the moral indignation. That’s because ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bonnie Stern’s Essentials of Home Cooking

By Bonnie Stern

Bonnie Stern has finally seen the light: fat is beautiful. The home economist and chef who made her name by preaching the dogma of low-fat in three “heart smart” cookbooks has dredged her newest book, ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Director’s Cut

By David Solway

Few critics match the moral urgency of David Solway, whose poetry reviews constitute an anti-canon to the literati’s assessment of its own merits. Solway’s debunking of celebrated poets, from Atwood to Zwicky, has earned him ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

By Jennifer Niven

In the bestselling The Ice Master, Jennifer Niven chronicled the doomed voyage of the Karluk in 1913-14. In an aside to that story, Niven mentioned that one of the survivors, Fred Maurer, returned seven years ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: History

Navigating a New World: Canada’s Global Future

By Lloyd Axworthy

Each passing month brings a more urgent need for the world to puzzle out the future of its beleaguered multilateral institutions. So it’s tempting to pick up a book by Lloyd Axworthy, Canada’s foreign affairs ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wondrous Strange: Glenn Gould, a Biography

By Kevin Bazzana

There are a number of enormous risks inherent in assessing the life of Glenn Gould. The heavy layers of hype and half-truth began to cover Gould around the time of his first public appearances as ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Dangerous Lives: War and the Men and Women Who Report It

By Anthony Feinstein

On the one side, various hells on earth: Rwanda, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Mozambique, The Ivory Coast, Somalia, Chechnya, Colombia. On the other side, the established democracies: health, wealth, individual rights, social order, even ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

City of Rains

By Nirmal Dass

The unnamed narrator of Nirmal Dass’s first novel is a Canadian of Punjabi descent who returns to the land of his grandfather, the source of the stories and songs that so enlivened his childhood. Although ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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