Toronto: The Family-Tested Guide to Fun Places

Several guidebooks steer adults toward worthwhile Toronto pastimes or getaway excursions to the country. This self-published book brings the kids along for more than the ride. Nathalie Prézeau, a weekly columnist on family outings for ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Details from a Larger Canvas

By Helen McLean

American art historian Linda Nochlin’s seminal essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” argued that women were excluded from achieving greatness in art by social norms and biological imperatives. The division of labour ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Sea of Heartbreak: An Extraordinary Account of a Newfoundland Fishing Voyage

By Michael Dwyer

Despite Farley Mowat’s heavy-handed introduction, Sea of Heartbreak is a straightforward, harrowing tale of a commercial fishery gone horribly wrong. Michael Dwyer, a Newfoundland fisherman, is a first-time author, and that shows here. His prose ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Daughter

By Ishbel Moore

The teen years are hard enough without having to cope with a parent whose behaviour has turned embarrassing and frightening. Sylvie’s wonderful mother, once a meticulous housekeeper, great teacher, and loving friend, has inexplicably become ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Run Over: A Boy, His Mother and an Accident

By Douglas Bell

Douglas Bell’s Run Over is the latest addition to the growing library of trauma memoirs – stories of life-changing encounters with illness, freak storms, rogue animals, or murderous vehicles. Such memoirs, by positing trauma as ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

River Song: Sailing the History of the St. Lawrence

By Phil Jenkins

Phil Jenkins, a musician, freelance writer, and author of An Acre of Time, has a passion for the St. Lawrence. In his latest book, River Song, he indulges that passion to tell the mighty river’s ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

Prescription Games: Money, Ego, and Power Inside the Global Pharmaceutical Industry

By Jeffrey Robinson

When it comes to health care, the public has high expectations. Patients demand strict ethical standards and believe that a certain degree of altruism should motivate not only health professionals, but pharmaceutical companies as well. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

ttuM: A Charlotte Novel

By Teddy Jam, Harvey Chan, illus.

Not many secrets in Canada’s small literary community are as well kept as the identity of Teddy Jam. Rumour suggests that the person behind the pseudonym is a prominent Canadian writer known only by Groundwood’s ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

Quebec: A Tale of Love

By Laurier LaPierre

Quebec: A Tale of Love is Laurier LaPierre’s attempt at explaining the current state of Quebec and how it got that way. A historian and broadcaster, LaPierre has written several books about his native province. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

Fraud

By David Rakoff

David Rakoff spends his life at a considerable remove. A neurotic, homosexual Canadian Jew who has spent almost half his life in New York City working as a journalist – but not a reporter, he ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

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