History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies

Dominick LaCapra’s collection of essays about history and reading is based on a series of popular lectures that he recently gave at the University of British Columbia. The book’s cover is appropriately adorned with Vermeer’s ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

A Darkness That Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century

By Frederick Asals and Paul Tiessen, eds.

Schools of criticism create their own canons, elevating certain texts, discarding others. Yet some works – Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is one of them – lend themselves readily to all critical approaches. Similarly, Lowry ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

December 6: From the Montreal Massacre to Gun Control

By Heidi Rathjen and Charles Montpetit

Dec. 6, 1999, marked the 10-year anniversary of the shooting deaths of 14 women at the Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique. A sad anniversary indeed, and the event recently received a long overdue monument, one ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids

By Mel Hurtig

Mel Hurtig, Council of Canadians founder, publisher, and author, was shocked by the extent of poverty he found during a two-year cross-country trek. Unfortunately, little of the suffering he observed emerges in this work marked ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Endless Propaganda: The Advertising of Public Goods

By Paul Rutherford

Not the sort of book to be consumed in the hubbub of one’s favourite tapas bar, Endless Propaganda is a challenging analysis of the links between government, media, advertising, and the democratic process.An Ontario academic ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Unauthorized Entry: The Truth About Nazi War Criminals in Canada, 1946-1956

By Howard Margolian

Howard Margolian, author of Conduct Unbecoming, which told the story of the murder of Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy in 1944, turns his attention to refuting the common perception that Canada was a haven ... Read More »

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

Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond

By Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff requires little introduction to booksellers and librarians. He is the award-winning author of several non-fiction books including The Russian Album, which won the Governor General’s Award. This is the expatriate Canadian’s third book ... Read More »

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

St. Stephen’s

By Sky Gilbert

Readers may not like this book, some for its disturbing content – especially its evangelical support of pederasty – others for its hectoring tone, but there is pleasure to discover if you’ve the stomach for ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Notes from the Hyena’s Belly: Memories of My Ethiopian Boyhood

By Nega Mezlekia

The haunting essence of Nega Mezlekia’s powerful memoir is captured in his opening lines: “I was born in the year of the paradox, in the labyrinthine city of Jijiga. After a three-year absence, the rains ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Cue the Dead Guy

By H. Mel Malton

Cue the Dead Guy is the second mystery featuring Polly Deacon, the underemployed puppet maker and born-again rural-dweller who lives in the fictional Ontario cottage country of Kuskawa. H. Mel Malton’s first Polly Deacon mystery, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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