February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
In Prototype, B.C. writer William Illsey Atkinson sets himself the task of discovering the “ideal” high-tech Canadian company: one that makes lots of money, gives its employees a fun and rewarding place to work, and ... Read More »
Wade Davis has never been a typical “science writer.” His books, including the international bestseller One River, have always been informed by Davis’s personal intensity and involvement (far exceeding that expected even of an anthropologist), ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
I wish Zamboni Rodeo had been around when I was researching my second novel. If it had, I wouldn’t have had to travel on an overheated bus with the San Antonio Iguanas of the Central ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Thelma Barley, the narrator of Toronto writer Camilla Gibb’s first novel, Mouthing the Words, survives childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her father and the emotional bludgeoning of her vain, capricious mother to become ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
There should be a warning on the cover of Carmelita McGrath’s stunning short story collection: “Do Not Read This If You Are Even Slightly Depressed.”McGrath’s protagonists are mostly women stuck in dead-end or abusive relationships ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
There should be a warning on the cover of Carmelita McGrath’s stunning short story collection: “Do Not Read This If You Are Even Slightly Depressed.”McGrath’s protagonists are mostly women stuck in dead-end or abusive relationships ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
It has often been said that one of the defining features of the Canadian character is our ability – and our willingness – to laugh at ourselves. What is often overlooked, however, is the fact ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference
In his new book on human rights, distinguished author and historian Michael Ignatieff grapples with profound issues of the human rights movement, skillfully mapping its controversies and ambiguities. Ignatieff probes the political morality of human ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
There are few true heroes to lead us boldly into the next millennium. Perhaps it’s because we’ve realized that in spite of this looming event, we still have to get on with our daily lives. ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The strength of M.G. Vassanji’s new novel, his first since 1994’s The Book of Secrets, is that it has the urgency of television news. That is its fatal weakness too, for like television news, it ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels