Belle Moral: A Natural History

To call Belle Moral Ann-Marie MacDonald’s newest play is a bit of a misnomer, since it began life as The Arab’s Mouth and had a run at Toronto’s Factory Theatre in 1990. Since the idea ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Shape I Gave You

By Martha Baillie

This haunting novel begins with an epigraph from the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz that starts, “We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers.” How arresting and intriguing. What would you do in ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blood Sports

By Eden Robinson

In a recent interview with the Toronto Star, author Michael Redhill confessed that he has become “less married to mainstream, lyrical kinds of writing … I would like to have the courage to make less ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age

By John Doyle

Familiar to many Canadians as The Globe and Mail’s television critic, John Doyle has written a book that is partly a memoir of his coming of age in the Ireland of the 1960s and ’70s ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Too Close for Comfort: Canada’s Future Within Fortress North America

By Maude Barlow

Tireless Canadian nationalist Maude Barlow, a prolific writer, researcher, and activist, has produced the latest in a series of social critiques that call on Canadians to beware of closer ties with the U.S. She examines ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas

By Isabel Vincent

In Bodies and Souls, seasoned investigative journalist Isabel Vincent turns her attention to an apparently forgotten yet utterly notorious episode in history: the Jewish slave trade that forced thousands of young women out of Eastern ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: History

Bud Inc.: Inside Canada’s Marijuana Industry

By Ian Mulgrew

There can be no denying that the pot phenomenon, confined decades ago to a supposed fringe underground, has since morphed into a mainstream drug of choice. The drug has become so ubiquitous that even prime-time ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Feenie’s: Brunch, Lunch, Dinner

By Rob Feenie

There are two admirable things about Vancouver chef Rob Feenie’s third cookbook, Feenie’s: Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, and one thing not so admirable.The first admirable thing is that Feenie gets out of the way of his ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Food & Drink

How the Cold War Began: The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies

By Amy Knight

For those who persist in thinking that it was only the U.S. government of the 1950s that was hysterical and paranoid and abused the civil rights of its citizens in pursuit of communists, Amy Knight’s ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: History

Up North: Where Canada’s Architecture Meets the Land

By Lisa Rochon

“Canadian architecture matters.” So argues Lisa Rochon in her new book, supporting that idea with a provocative argument. Yes, says The Globe and Mail’s architecture critic, most of what’s being built in our country is ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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