It Pays to Play

In the postmodern tradition of taking the most irreverent “cultural bottom feeders” and elevating them to the lofty heights of intellectual discourse, curator and writer Peter White, scores with It Pays to Play, an exhibition ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Laughs: Funny Stories Selected by Claire Mackay

By Claire Mackay

Is there a distinctively Canadian sense of humour? From reading Laughs, Claire Mackay’s anthology of funny stories, poems, and riddles by Canadian authors, one has to conclude there isn’t. The range of humour is broad ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Pimsleur Language Program (French)

By Paul Pimsleur

Most foreigners living in Japan eventually hear the same warning: Be careful not to become too good at Japanese.Gaijin who speak like locals are viewed with mistrust – at least according to conventional wisdom – ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Learn in Your Car French

By Henry N. Raymond

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Secrets of Learning a Foreign Language

By Graham E. Fuller

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wildfire: British Columbia Burns

By Charles Anderson and Lori Culbert

While it is often difficult to fathom the demand for a souvenir book of a tragedy like last summer’s fires in British Columbia’s Interior, Wildfire: British Columbia Burns certainly brings those events into sharp focus. ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Complicated Kindness

By Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews’ second novel starts with a funny-sad zinger: “Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing,” and right away we’re hooked on our narrator’s mournful smarts. Laconic, restless, sixteen-year-old Naomi “Nomi” Nickel doesn’t ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown

By Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

At some point, most writers encounter The Travelling Writer. “I’m also a writer of sorts,” this person will usually say, “but I only write when I’m travelling to other countries because I find so much ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hello Serotonin

By Jon Paul Fiorentino

Widely prescribed drugs whose names blend the promise of comfort with cold, technological efficiency – Zoloft, Paxil, Xanax – are even now resculpting the contemporary mindscape. All of this offers promising terrain for Hello Serotonin, ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

After Surfing Ocean Beach

By Mary Soderstrom

Mary Soderstrom’s third novel, though relatively uncomplicated in both style and structure, is curiously enigmatic. The mystery begins with the title: although the surf at Ocean Beach provides the setting for a number of flashback ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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