February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Reference
This fall, when temperatures start dropping, I know I’ll start dreaming of travel. Fortunately, people like me, who cannot get away this year, will be able to choose from a variety of entertaining new travel ... Read More »
This fall, when temperatures start dropping, I know I’ll start dreaming of travel. Fortunately, people like me, who cannot get away this year, will be able to choose from a variety of entertaining new travel ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Reference
I can’t find a word for “fear of antiques,” but I know one must be out there. After years of being told not to sit on a chair, step on a rug, or drink from ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
I can’t find a word for “fear of antiques,” but I know one must be out there. After years of being told not to sit on a chair, step on a rug, or drink from ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
I can’t find a word for “fear of antiques,” but I know one must be out there. After years of being told not to sit on a chair, step on a rug, or drink from ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
I can’t find a word for “fear of antiques,” but I know one must be out there. After years of being told not to sit on a chair, step on a rug, or drink from ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
The main protagonist in Brad Fraser’s new play Snake in Fridge is a house. Owned by a pornography ringleader, inhabited by six characters possessed by personal demons, and witness to the murder of a neophyte ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Ronna Bloom, a Toronto writer, psychotherapist, teacher, and erstwhile photographer, collects images and stories from her many lives for her second collection of poetry, Personal Effects. The “personal effects” of Bloom’s poetry are not so ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Whether remembering the frightening possibility of abduction in the suburbs or sympathizing with the local florist as she glides through her shop, glorying in the banality of sales, Vancouver poet Billeh Nickerson forms his exacting ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
There’s a telling scene in “A North American Education,” one of 13 stories in Southern Stories, the first volume in a new series of Clark Blaise’s collected shorter works. The teenaged narrator and his father, ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short