★ My Rows and Piles of Coins

By Tololwa M. Mollel, E.B. Lewis, illus.

When Saruni’s mother gives him five 10-cent coins for helping her at the market, the boy’s imagination runs wild with all that he might buy. A shiny red and blue bicycle catches his eye, and ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Share the Sky

By Ting-xing Ye, Suzane Langlois, illus.

Kites soar and dip in this lovely picture book by Orillia, Ontario author Ting-xing Ye and Montreal artist Suzane Langlois. Lilting text and luminous watercolours tell the story of Fei-fei, a young girl who lives ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Snow Day

By Werner Zimmermann

Waking to a heavy snowfall, with its pale, washed light and strange silence, touches even the most jaded Canadian adult. Everything ordinary is muffed and scarfed in plump white billows. If you happen to be ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Shoreline: Three Plays

By Don Hannah

Don Hannah’s plays demonstrate the theatre’s ability to grab the emotions of an audience and not let go for a second. The three plays collected here, Rubber Dolly, Running Far Back, and Fathers and Sons, ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Very Heaven

By Ann Lambert

Home is where you hang yourself.” It may be a flippant, throwaway line in Ann Lambert’s play Very Heaven but it does capture the destructive essence of family life as portrayed by these two Canadian ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Marion Bridge

By Daniel MacIvor

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Green Man

By John Donlan

Certain things in this world are still better when they’re made the old-fashioned way. Certain things, but not always art. When art is made the old-fashioned way, it just feels, well, old-fashioned. As a poet, ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The End of Travel

By Julie Bruck

Poet Julie Bruck is a former Montrealer now living in San Francisco. This second collection is distinguished by a gentle touch that leavens the dark landscape of her poetry. Bruck charts the everyday, urban world ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Ingmar Bergman: Magician and Prophet

By Marc Gervais

Ingmar Bergman, undoubtedly one of the greatest directors the cinema has produced, is also one of the most critically appreciated, analyzed, and assessed artists. There are dozens of works written about Bergman (not to mention ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Merger: A Criminal Conspiracy to Take Over Canada and the World

By Jeffrey Robinson

The ways of the mob have been changed forever by new faces who make the traditional Mafiosi seem benign. Mobologist Jeffrey Robinson, whose specialty is chronicling money laundering, focuses here on Colombian narcotrafficantes, corrupt Mexican ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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