Reviews

★ The Gum Thief

Right from the get-go we’re deep in Coupland country with The Gum Thief: the über-now pop culture references, the casual, deliciously snide vernacular, the loopy, neurotic characters you can’t help but love, and of course, ... Read More »

August 30, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By Naomi Klein

In Dr. Seuss’s story “The Sneetches,” the star-bellied Sneetches discriminate against those plain-bellied Sneetches with “none upon thars.” That is, until arch-capitalist Sylvester Monkey McBean rolls into town with a machine that puts stars on ... Read More »

August 30, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh

By Maria Tippett

When Maria Tippett, author of a GG-winning bio of Emily Carr, asked Yousuf Karsh for permission to write his biography, he graciously declined. It was only after Karsh’s death in 2002 that his estate decided ... Read More »

August 27, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Between Interruptions: Thirty Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood

By Cori Howard, ed.

A strange thing happens when a woman has a child: she immediately becomes part of “the club.” And it doesn’t matter if the woman is straight, gay, partnered, or alone, or if the child arrived ... Read More »

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

What Happened Later

By Ray Robertson

“He honored life” – so reads Jack Kerouac’s tombstone. Ray Robertson does his best to honour Kerouac’s life in his fifth novel. What Happened Later depicts Kerouac’s latter stages of existence while also detailing the ... Read More »

August 13, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Spook Country

By William Gibson

Centred around Hollis Henry, a journalist and former rock star, William Gibson’s latest novel is a taut, fast-paced journey into the world of infinite wealth and espionage. Hired originally to write about “locative art,” a ... Read More »

July 30, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last to Die: Ronald Turpin, Arthur Lucas, and the End of Capital Punishment in Canada

By Robert J. Hoshowsky

Robert J. Hoshowsky admits to being slightly obsessed with Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas, the last two men hanged in Canada. In The Last to Die, Hoshowsky has reconstructed the lives and deaths of Turpin ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: History

Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-first Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway

By Witold Rybczynski

With his new, generously subtitled book, architecture and design writer Witold Rybczynski (who currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design) follows, in considerable detail, the transformation of a tract of agricultural land ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Witch in the Wind: The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose

By Marq de Villiers

The Bluenose is a Canadian icon, the symbol of an age when schooners ruled the waves and were depended upon by many a Maritime family. In his latest book, Governor General’s Award winner Marq de ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Where People Feast: An Indigenous People’s Cookbook

By Annie Watts, Dolly Watts

Dolly and Annie Watts – mother and daughter, respectively – are descended from chiefs of B.C.’s Gitk’san First Nation. From 1995 until earlier this year, they ran one of only two restaurants of its kind ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

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