Reviews

The Solid Form of Language: An Essay on Writing and Meaning

“Years ago, in a Bosnian town, a woman tried repeatedly to speak to me, though the words she knew and trusted were words I did not understand,” recalls the writer Robert Bringhurst. “At length, in ... Read More »

June 15, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Speaking Out: Ideas That Work for Canadians

By Jack Layton

Since becoming leader of the federal NDP last year, Jack Layton has done a skillful job of steering the party to the centre. Not surprisingly, that’s where his new campaign book is aimed. The theme ... Read More »

June 7, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bedside Manners: Sex Etiquette Made Easy

By Josey Vogels

Vanilla, kink, gay, straight – if it’s out there Josey Vogels, author and nationally syndicated sex columnist, has written about it. For her fifth and latest book, Bedside Manners, Vogels shows why she is Canada’s ... Read More »

May 31, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Heiress vs. the Establishment: Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for Legal Justice

By Elizabeth Bethune Campbell, Constance and Nancy L. Backhouse

The study of Canadian history, often the butt of jokes about snooze buttons, does manage to come alive on occasion, especially when the Backhouse name is connected with it. Both Constance – author of numerous ... Read More »

May 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Nowhere Fast

By Yashin Blake

Toronto writer Yashin Blake gives us 18 stories for the initiated, populated with edgy urbanites dispensing wry witticisms as they hold forth on such little-known cultural phenomena as McCoy Tyner, Slayer, and the Project for ... Read More »

May 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Juno Beach: Canada’s D-Day Victory: June 6, 1944

By Mark Zuehlke

Beginning with the First World War, the recollections of the common soldier have been given increasing credence as primary source material for Western military history. The obvious benefit of this inclusion is additional material to ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

D-Day: Juno Beach, Canada’s 24 Hours of Destiny

By Lance Goddard

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Memory Orchard

By Tim Bowling

Poet Tim Bowling’s first book of poetry, Low Water Slack, was published in 1995. In the nine years since, Bowling has proved himself to be extremely prolific, publishing five subsequent books of poetry, two novels, ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Mad About the Bay

By John Fraser and Elizabeth MacCallum, William Harris, illus.

The sound of lapping water always sends me into a delicious stupor. Add to that the persistent ding of sailboat masts and you have a moment of perfect communion. At its best, that’s the feeling ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Parts Unknown: Wrestling, Gimmicks and Other Works

By Michael Holmes

Any collection of poetry that centres on a subject as atypical as professional wrestling risks alienating poetry’s core audience. In Parts Unknown, Michael Holmes opts to spread his wrestling expertise throughout each piece – answering ... Read More »