How to Read a Poem…and Start a Poetry Circle

That “parse” and “parch” are such near homophonic kin is surely no accident. Nor is it insignificant that every entrance of “analysis” is announced by the footman “anal.” Perhaps this is why so many readers ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

A Nurse’s Story: Life, Death, and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit

By Tilda Shalof

The key error that potential readers of A Nurse’s Story could make is to assume that the book is chiefly a worthy, public-interest kind of volume; the kind that a good citizen really ought to ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Kiss and Tell: An Intimate History of Kissing

By Alison Garwood-Jones

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Julie Enfield explores the physical and emotional journey our lips can lead us on in her first book, Kiss and Tell: An Intimate History of Kissing.The bulk of the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Ross Macdonald: The Life of a Mystery Writer

By Tom Nolan

Although crime novelist Ross Macdonald was born in Northern California in 1915, he was heavily influenced by the time he spent north of the 49th. Macdonald (real name: Kenneth Millar) spent his childhood in Vancouver, ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Toronto: A Literary Guide

By Greg Gatenby

This may not come out right, but a couple of times as I was ambling happily through Greg Gatenby’s Toronto: A Literary Guide I had the waking dream that this was some kind of surveillance ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Big Breath of a Wish

By Richard Harrison

It’s rare to find a book of poetry that ought to be recommended to new parents. Yet for such readers Big Breath of a Wish, by Calgary poet Richard Harrison (nominated for Best Poetry Book ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Juno: Canadians At D-Day June 6, 1944

By Ted Barris

History often seems inevitable. Sixty years after the fact, when thinking about victory in the Second World War, we point to American industry, British pluck, the endless Russian steppe, and, yes, Canadian determination, and say ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: History

I Knew Two Métis Women

By Gregory Scofield

Never mind Canada’s French-English “founding nation” idea: Métis people are the founding nation. Created out of mixed cultures – French or Scottish fur traders married to Cree women – and combining precolonial and colonial history, ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Drawn and Quarterly

The self-titled yearly anthology Drawn and Quarterly, now on its fifth volume, is an impressive, full-colour tome that introduces North America to some of the world’s best new comic book talent, as well as providing ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

What’s a Black Critic to Do? Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers

By Donna Bailey Nurse

A key figure in the growing public discourse on race and voice in Canadian letters is Toronto reviewer, literary critic, and journalist Donna Bailey Nurse. Her first book, What’s a Black Critic To Do?, is ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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