Reviews

Carnal Knowledge: A Navel Gazer’s Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia

Though these two engaging new word books should set logophiles atwitter, their broad appeal and lack of pretension make them attractive to a far broader audience as well. In Can I Have a Word with ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Can I Have a Word With You?

By Howard Richler

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

How the Dead Dream

By Lydia Millet

The hero of novelist Lydia Millet’s latest moral fantasy is named Thomas, but his mother and almost everyone else call him “T.” He isn’t an Everyman, but he is a modern type, a young Californian ... Read More »

January 14, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

At a Loss for Words

By Diane Schoemperlen

Diane Schoemperlen is the author of one of the best collections of short stories ever published in Canada, 1998’s Forms of Devotion. Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction in 1998, the book ... Read More »

January 7, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Celebrity Diplomacy

By Andrew F. Cooper

Recently, someone forwarded me Jim Carrey’s YouTube video in support of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi. At the same time, on TV, I watched Bill Gates introduce Don Cheadle at last year’s Davos summit. Later, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The New Game: How Hockey Saved Itself

By Steve Paikin

Although author and TVOntario personality Steve Paikin clearly loves and understands the game of hockey and its history, there is little in this compact and quick read to suggest that the game – at the ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Everywhere Being Is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking

By Robert Bringhurst

Poet, philosopher, translator, linguist, critic, typographer, ethnographer – Robert Bringhurst is a rare sort of person: an independent scholar and a non-specialist. As such, he is just the sort of voice we should be listening ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Ebb and Flow

By Tom Koppel

Tom Koppel, the author of 2001’s Powering the Future, has always had a thing for tides, ever since his summer visits to Star Island as a child. Boasting only one tree on its barren flanks, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World’s Longest Undefended Border Across the Western Plains

By Tony Rees

Comparing a Canadian-history writer with Pierre Berton is not something that should be done lightly; Berton’s ability to make history accessible to the masses is legendary. However, with Arc of the Medicine Line, Tony Rees ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: History

The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul

By Mario Beauregard, Denyse O’Leary

Head through the Ideas or Books section of any weekend paper these days and an unquestioned orthodoxy quickly asserts itself from behind the veneer of open-minded enquiry. That orthodoxy is the doctrine of scientific materialism, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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