Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea – From the Beginning of Time

The folk refrain, “Farewell to Nova Scotia, your seabound coast, may your mountains dark and dreary be,” haunts Lesley Choyce’s new history, Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea. Throughout his ambitious compilation of the past, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

No Fat Chicks: How Women Are Brainwashed to Hate Their Bodies and Spend Their Money

By Terry Poulton

Following on the heels of American Naomi Wolf’s critically acclaimed The Beauty Myth and the recently published Lip Service: The Truth about Women’s Darker Side in Sex, Love and Friendship by Canadian journalist Kate Fillion, ... Read More »

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

Big, Bold and Beautiful: Living Large on a Small Planet

By Jackqueline Hope

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

Yankee Go Home?: Canadians and Anti-Americanism

By J.L. Granatstein

Retired York University history professor J.L. Granatstein begins Yankee Go Home? with a confession. He set out to write, he explains, a justification for the Yank-bashing that defines our quest for national identity. He would ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

★ A History of Reading

By Alberto Manguel

I’ve long been devoted to books like Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines, books that gather around a single subject and with the help of history and literature and a sympathetic sensibility of their own, illuminate it ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Saving Grace: The Collected Poems of Mrs. Bentley

By Lorna Crozier

A Saving Grace, the latest book from celebrated Prairie (and now B.C.) poet Lorna Crozier, is an ambitious collection of revisitation and recidivism. As the subtitle, The Collected Poems of Mrs. Bentley, suggests, Crozier adopts ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

White Crane Spreads Wings

By Gary Hyland

The deft formalism of this collection, combined with a lively eye for detail, makes White Crane Spreads Wings a pleasure. Though intimate or personal subjects may be treated, each of the poems here is allowed ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Stupid Boys Are Good to Relax with

By Susan Swan

Reading Susan Swan is often exhilarating. Her first novel, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, was a delight and, thankfully, the second half of Stupid Boys – “Cyber Tales” – has a similar sense ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Englishman’s Boy

By Guy Vanderhaeghe

In Guy Vanderhaeghe’s latest novel, The Englishman’s Boy, two seemingly disparate narratives intersect to form an impressive whole. Related in alternating chapters, the first tale centres on the Englishman’s boy, a young man who ends ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Word of Mouth

By M.A.C. Farrant

B.C. writer M.A.C. Farrant has worked as a social worker, a child-care worker, and an accountant. And at various points in Word of Mouth, her fourth book of short fiction, it all shows – for ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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