February 19, 2004 at 04:57pm | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
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A valedictory quality pervades this collection of nine personal essays. In his preface, George Melnyk points out that New Moon…Read More »
A decade ago, I suggested to my agent that I should do a book called “Eminent Canadians,” a Lytton Strachey-like…Read More »
February 19, 2004 at 03:52pm | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
For Anya, the shiny brown chestnuts known as conkers are the stuff of dreams. When her grandmother tells her that…Read More »
February 17, 2004 at 01:52pm | Filed under: Picture Books
In The Fat Lady Struck Dumb, his sixth book of poems, David Waltner-Toews convicts himself of “the crime” identified in…Read More »
February 12, 2004 at 04:46pm | Filed under: Poetry
Bessie Smith, the narrator of Open Arms, the first novel by Saskatchewan writer and playwright Marina Endicott, is a young…Read More »
February 12, 2004 at 12:34pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Michelle Berry’s two short-story collections are informed by a sharply mordant edge, their haunting characters anything but typical van-owning suburbanites.…Read More »
February 9, 2004 at 05:17pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Ever since Shirley Conran wrote Superwoman in the early 1980s, the marketplace has been flooded with books targetting career women…Read More »
February 6, 2004 at 11:31am | Filed under: Health & Self-help
Cynics could argue that Dorothy Joudrie was guilty of hyperbole when she fired six bullets into the body of her…Read More »
February 3, 2004 at 01:42pm | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Thelma Barley, the narrator of Toronto writer Camilla Gibb’s first novel, Mouthing the Words, survives childhood sexual abuse at the…Read More »
February 2, 2004 at 02:54pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In 1957, to prevent a fight to the death between the Southam-owned Vancouver Province and the privately owned Vancouver Sun,…Read More »
January 26, 2004 at 05:09pm | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs