Reviews

Sushi Daze

In Rob Payne’s latest novel, protagonist Jamie Schmidt is a 30-year-old hipster Torontonian with a McJob in radio who fears his life has jumped the shark. After George Harrison appears to him in a dream ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia

By Charles Montgomery

Maybe it’s all Gauguin’s fault that the islands of the South Pacific have a reputation as an earthly paradise, but readers won’t get very far into The Last Heathen before they wonder how the idea ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Reference

In the Name of the Father: An Essay on Quebec Nationalism

By Daniel Poliquin,Donald Winkler, trans.

Why In the Name of the Father is being sold as a novel is completely inexplicable. Two archetypal characters, one a Quebec nationalist, the other a federalist, appear in the early pages and again at ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Memory Book

By Howard Engel

Canada’s favourite soft-boiled detective, Benny Cooperman, is a little worse for wear in Memory Book, the 11th instalment of this popular series.But fans will be pleased that he has been able to return at all ... Read More »

February 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich

By David Cayley

As anyone who has noted the enormous popularity of The Da Vinci Code can attest, the topic of Catholic Church corruption is both riveting and unsettling. This subject formed the life work of one Ivan ... Read More »

February 14, 2005 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Book of Love Letters: Canadian Kinship, Friendship, and Romance

By Paul and Audrey Grescoe

Paul and Audrey Grescoe’s lively and emotional new collection, The Book of Love Letters, is like a big box of the very best chocolate. The letters are rich with emotion and wit, but they should ... Read More »

February 14, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies

Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas

By Gary Geddes

Every year, thousands of hours are spent earnestly debating whether Christopher Columbus was a brave explorer or a genocidal imperialist. Vancouver poet, writer, and academic Gary Geddes’ new book brings to a mainstream audience a ... Read More »

February 7, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist

By Jessica Warner

Toronto-based academic and writer Jessica Warner has written a fine story about an eccentric subject: an unsuccessful anti-British insurgent during the American Revolution. John Aitken, aka John the Painter, was born the son of a ... Read More »

January 24, 2005 | Filed under: History

It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journals of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919

By Bruce Cane

The Western Front of the First World War consumed individuality as thoroughly as it consumed individuals. As Canadians, our folk-memory of the war is of the quick and the dead indistinguishable from the mud. In ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

The Greek for Love: A Memoir of Corfu

By James Chatto

There probably aren’t many city dwellers who haven’t considered – perhaps while sitting in traffic or being accosted by an aggressive panhandler – pitching it all and going to live in the country. Then they ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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