Reviews

★ Counting Out the Millennium: Poems by John Oughton

One of the recurring themes for public discussion in the latter years of the 1990s has been the end of the century, made particularly significant because it harbingers the end of one millennium and the ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ For a Modest God

By Eric Ormsby

Eric Ormsby, born in Atlanta, is a professor of Near Eastern Studies at McGill University, and his poetry has been published in major American and Canadian literary periodicals, and is included in the current Norton ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

If I Were Me

By Clark Blaise

If I were Lander – guilt-ridden main character, failed father and husband, famous neurolinguist – I might be less forgiving of myself. So why does author Clark Blaise allow his character to find so much ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lydia Thrippe! A Critic’s Diary Followed by the Lydiad

By Daniel Sloate

At university I was given a secondhand copy of a literary anthology, with a free form novel-in-progress attached. The book had been owned by a celebrated Upper Canada College academic, who had scribbled thousands of ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Hand in the Water: The Many Lies of Albert Walker

By Bill Schiller

The story of Albert Walker has all the elements of a lurid mystery: high finance, international fugitives, incest, and finally, murder. Walker fled to England from Canada in 1990, taking with him his 15-year-old daughter, ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Nothing Sacred: The Many Lives and Betrayals of Albert Walker

By Alan Cairns

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bodies in Motion: A Matthew Prior Mystery

By Anthony Quogan

In pseudonymous Toronto mystery writer Anthony Quogan’s Bodies in Motion, recurring character Matthew Prior is commissioned to adapt Hitchcock’s train thriller The Lady Vanishes for a modern-day American audience. By way of research, he is ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Clear: A Contemporary Canadian Poetry Anthology

By Allan Forrie, Patrick O’Rourke, Glen Sorestad, eds.

For decades, Saskatchewan-based Thistledown Press has been publishing poetry collections by well-known and lesser-known Canadian writers. The editors of In the Clear have exploited the press’s archival wealth to compile a large anthology whose purpose ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Take Charge Computing for Teens and Parents

By Pam Dixon

IDG Books has discreetly minimized the Dummies logo on its new kids-and-parents computing series, packaging this set as “a cool reference for the whole family.” The three guides, covering software for kids aged 2-12, web ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment