A Natural History

Keith Oatley, author of The Case of Emily V, has written a novel that can be approached on many levels. Inspired by George Eliot’s Middlemarch, it is a romance, a historical fiction, and a tale ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Ingratitude

By Ying Chen, Carol Volk, trans.

Have you ever wondered how people will react when you die? Shanghai-born Montrealer Ying Chen takes this concept to its very limits in her third novel, Ingratitude. Twenty-five-year-old Yan Zi decides to take her own ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Out of My Skin

By Tessa McWatt

It’s rare that a reader is privileged with a protagonist as authentic as Daphne Baird. Tessa McWatt’s debut, Out of My Skin, makes us painfully aware of Daphne’s confusion as she searches for her identity ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Introducing WebTV

By Jill T. Freeze and Wayne S. Freeze

Boy, this Internet thing must be frustrating for marketing types. After more than five years in the white-hot glare of media attention – five years as the Next Big Thing – the goose still refuses ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

I Want My WebTV

By David Fox

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

WebTV for Dummies

By Brad Hill

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Twenty-Eight Bottles Around the Bay: Ten Gourmet Dinners for People with No Time and No Space

By Margaret Sharpe

The Holy Grail of cooking is the sophisticated quick-fix meal. Sure, we may have refined tastes – we know the difference between tomalley and tamale – but rarely do we have the time or inclination ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Uncivilizing

By Caroline Davidson et al.,Jennifer Footman, ed.

In the editor’s introduction, Jennifer Footman makes a distinction between Uncivilizing and other contemporary poetry anthologies that herald the arrival of “new and exciting” writers (usually poets under 30 or those not-yet-known). In contrast, Footman ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Selected Poems: 1978-1997

By Patrick Lane

In this 20-year retrospective of Patrick Lane’s work, readers are given a selection that tends toward sentimental morbidity at its most poetic. While he is celebrated for his pioneering work in West Coast poetry circles ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

A Broken Bowl

By Patrick Friesen

As the end of the millennium approaches, where will serious Canadian writers position themselves in the coming mass-media onslaught of predictions and summations? With his new book, Manitoba’s Patrick Friesen places himself firmly in the apocalyptic ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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