Studio Rally: Art and Craft of Nova Scotia

When Nova Scotia’s annual Studio Rally takes place each autumn, hundreds of craftspeople open their doors to the public. The event’s success over the years has led to a glossy book profiling some of the ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Question

By Austin Clarke

Set in Toronto, this slightly surreal novel of sexual politics by veteran fiction writer Austin Clarke, winner of the 1999 W. O. Mitchell Literary Prize, tells the tale of a 40-something black man who meets ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

First Son: Portraits by C.D. Hoy

By Faith Moosang

Chow Dong Hoy, a Chinese-Canadian photographer who took over 1,500 evocative portraits of First Nations, Chinese, and Caucasian subjects in the B.C. Interior during the early 1900s, was very nearly relegated to the ranks of ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

From Your Father’s House: Reflections for Modern Jewish Men

By Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky

There’s an old Jewish saying, at once self-disparaging and yet slightly smug: “Ten Jews, 50 opinions.” Jews are obstreperous and argumentative, it seems to imply, but also individualistic and highly independent. While Jewish communities often ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Why Should Jews Survive? Looking Past the Holocaust Toward a Jewish Future

By Michael Goldberg

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Generation J

By Lisa Schiffman

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Gentle Dark: Nighttime Poems & Prayers for Children

By Alyson C. Huntly, Chao Yu, illus.

This collection of poems deliberately sets out to challenge negative associations of the image of the dark. As the author states in her afterword, the association of darkness with evil and ignorance has often led ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Python Play and Other Recipes for Fun

By Robert Heidbreder, Karen Patkau, illus.

This delightful and lively book of poems for younger children is a pleasure to read aloud. Vancouver author, teacher, and Greek and Latin scholar Robert Heidbreder, who wrote the collections of poems Don’t Eat Spiders ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls

By Susan Musgrave, ed.

Susan Musgrave has selected seven riveting accounts of epiphanies in the teenage years of Canadian female writers. What is impressive about this polished collection is that apart from Musgrave and Marion Quednau, most of the ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

Baby Penguin

By Aubrey Lang,Wayne Lynch, photog.

Baby Penguin is Lang and Lynch’s second book in their Nature Babies series, the first title being The Adventures of Baby Bear (published in July). Both books describe the maturation process of the baby animal ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

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