January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
If there are any kinds of hazards, mishaps, prickly encounters, or bizarre turns of event that James Bartleman did not encounter during his 35-year career in Canada’s foreign service, it’s difficult to imagine what they ... Read More »
In his foreword to David Nunuk’s Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia ($49.95 cloth 1-55017-273-5, 122 pp., Harbour Publishing), editor Dave Jones describes the two traditional methods of photographing the province’s bountiful scenery. The first ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
Prominent bioethicist and prolific author M. Sara Rosenthal promises to distill the overwhelming abundance of diet information in The Skinny on Fat. Rosenthal wants to get to the bottom of “low-fat culture” and put readers ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
Given the vagaries of memory and historical record, there are bound to be gaps in any family history. For those with the resources and faculty, many of these gaps can be filled. Robert Calder, an ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
The post-9/11 chill that muted some critics of corporate business practices did nothing to stop professor Joel Bakan from pursuing his own thesis: that corporations are, by structure, nature, and law, pathological creatures with zero ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Kenneth Radu’s poetic manipulation of fact starts with the title of his disturbing memoir. Though she spoke more Romanian than English throughout her life, Annie Corches was born near Fort Qu’Appelle, in Canada’s oldest Romanian ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In his first novel, poet Don Coles interweaves a compelling story about an abused wife with the reflections of his narrator, the aging Dutch doctor Nicolaas Bloom, on saintliness, masochism, and the life and work ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The eponymous protagonist of Trevor Cole’s first novel is a theatre actor who never slips out of character. With others, he performs; when alone, he rehearses. He has a bewildering capacity to view his life ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Kameleon Man, the debut novel from broadcast journalist and writer Kim Brunhuber, is an insightful and affecting treatment of the issues surrrounding race, gender, and sexuality in the 21st century. That it is set against ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Russell Smith is one of those rare figures on the Canadian cultural scene who has the capacity to really enrage people. From far-flung Globe and Mail readers, who see him as an arrogant Toronto art ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels