Midnight Sun

It is obvious from reading Lawrence Osgood’s Midnight Sun that the author has an abiding, deep love for the Arctic and its Inuit inhabitants. To his credit, his love is neither blind nor paternalistic, as ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Dolphin’s Tooth

By Bruce Kirkby

An engineer by training, author Bruce Kirkby has turned his aversion to the nine-to-five rat race and a desk job into an abiding love of adventure travel, and makes a living at it. His second ... Read More »

October 24, 2005 | Filed under: Reference

The Walking Boy

By Lydia Kwa

Ghosts, revenge, hermaphrodites, and quests across the deserts and mountains of western China – Lydia Kwa’s novel The Walking Boy has the elements of one of those literally fantastic Asian action films. But her story ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus

By Margaret Atwood

Reporting ringside as The Odyssey and Margaret Atwood square off is pretty intimidating stuff. How to begin passing judgment on one of the first in a new series of books that touts “top-class writers from ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Map of Glass

By Jane Urquhart

On a winter’s night a man stumbles toward a great frozen lake, confused and disoriented. Months later his body, arms outstretched as if in supplication or an embrace, washes up in the retreating ice at ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lizard Cage

By Karen Connelly

You don’t need to start reading Karen Connelly’s latest knowing anything about her Governor General’s Award for non-fiction in 1993 or her five books of poetry or her enduring love for the country of Burma. ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Portable Altamont

By Brian Joseph Davis

On a high-school rugby trip, my buddy Mike Sullivan, to help pass time on the bus ride, introduced to the team the hilarious game of substituting the word “penis” for the principal noun in any ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

★ He Claims He Is the Direct Heir

By Lazar Sarna

He Claims He Is the Direct Heir is Montreal lawyer Lazar Sarna’s fourth poetry collection, but his first in over a quarter-century. In their conceits and concerns and their bleak gallows humour, Sarna’s poems are ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Laughing with My Mouth Full: Tales from a Gulf Islands Kitchen

By Pam Freir

Laughing with My Mouth Full opens with a wish list called “Pie in the Sky” that begins, “I wish that I’d wake up one day to find the whole world coated in chocolate” and ends, ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients

By Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels

A pill for every ill. It’s the sort of jingle that a pharmaceutical marketer would love to see on the Billboard charts and is certainly the mindset of most pharma executives and shareholders, according to ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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