The Museum Guard

When we see a person in a painting from another time and place, that person can become almost present to us, stirring thoughts and memories in our own time and place. In The Museum Guard ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Belle of the Bayou

By Joanna Goodman

At first glance it looks like you could make a female buddy flick out of Joanna Goodman’s first novel Belle of the Bayou. You know the kind of movie: a sort of funny “Thelma and ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gas Tank & Other Stories

By Dennis E. Bolen

In Gas Tank & Other Stories Dennis E. Bolen – author of several books including Stupid Crimes and Krekshuns – offers a glimpse of the world through the eyes of the beaten and destroyed, everyday ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Natural History

By Keith Oatley

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

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