Reviews

Walk To New York: A Journey Out of the Wilds of Canada

"Because I felt like it” – that’s the reason journalist Charles Wilkins most often gave for deciding to walk from Thunder Bay in northern Ontario to New York City. But since the walk was preceded ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation

By Chris Turner

Anyone who’s ever watched an episode of The Simpsons knows that the long-running cartoon is topical, wickedly satirical, subversive, laugh-out-loud hilarious, and has oodles of street cred among disaffected youth who came of age in ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982-2004

By Margaret Atwood

For Moving Targets, her second collection of reviews, journalism, and occasional pieces, Margaret Atwood has elected to follow a strictly chronological organizing format. While this may seem simplistic at first glance, ultimately this approach unifies ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

It’s the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil, and the Fight for the Planet

By Linda McQuaig

From her perch as one of Canada’s best-known muckraking journalists, Linda McQuaig has tackled her biggest topic to date: the future of the planet. The author of such well-received political critiques as Shooting the Hippo ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power

By Peter C. Newman

For such an ardent Canadian nationalist, Peter C. Newman’s life conforms in many respects to the clichéd image of the American dream. A poor immigrant boy arrives on these shores with nothing but a dream. ... Read More »

October 25, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Museum Called Canada: 25 Rooms of Wonder

By Charlotte Gray

Photographic reproductions are common and precise enough these days to provoke disappointment when one finally stands amidst a jostling throng of tourists viewing the real Mona Lisa through several centimetres of bulletproof glass. The upside ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: History

All That Matters

By Wayson Choy

All That Matters is Wayson Choy’s follow-up to his acclaimed first novel, The Jade Peony; both novels concern the Chens, a family caught up in the Chinese diaspora of the 1930s and ’40s.The Jade Peony ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Learning to Swim

By Larry Lynch

Learning to Swim, the first collection from New Brunswick author Larry Lynch, presents seven stories that range in style from straightforward narrative to magic realism-tinged metafiction. It’s a mix that is always interesting, but not ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Wild Dogs

By Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys’ fourth novel, Wild Dogs, sure to be a hit with canine lovers everywhere, launches with a bold and poetic narrative voice. It is Alice, describing the circumstances of six strangers who’ve bonded over ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Spine

By K.I. Press

In the marketing materials that accompany Toronto poet K.I. Press’s second book of poetry, Spine, Gaspereau Press has included several “study questions” that reviewers may want to use to discuss this book. Though the questions ... Read More »

October 18, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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