Reviews

What I Remember from My Time on Earth

What I Remember From My Time on Earth follows four years after Patricia Young’s Governor General’s Award nomination for More Watery Still. In this new collection, the seventh from the Victoria writer, Young turns her ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Lunar Perspectives: Field Notes from the Culture Wars

By Michael Keefer

Public education is under attack, the forces on the left outgunned and outmaneuvered by a well-financed campaign on the right, says English professor Michael Keefer. Across North America, conservatives are trying to starve universities into ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Body Speaking Words

By Loree Harrell

Every year, over the Labour Day Weekend, Vancouver’s Anvil Press superintends a Three-Day Novel-Writing Contest, an impossible-sounding competition that has evolved into a kind of Canadian literary institution. The title is accurate: contestants really are ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Music for the Tsar of the Sea

By Celia Barker Lottridge, Harvey Chan, illus.

Each country has its share of folklore – stories sent from the past through the oral tradition. They were never intended especially for children; they were for everyone. Whatever their country of origin, folk tales ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

Weighing the Elephant

By Ting-xing Ye, Suzane Langlois, illus.

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

E.con: How the Internet Undermines Democracy

By Donald Gutstein

Remember 1994? In those days, the Internet was still known as the information highway, and the media was filled with stories about how online technology would one day make the world’s accumulated knowledge available to ... Read More »

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Digital Democracy: Policy and Politics in the Wired World

By Cynthia J. Alexander and Leslie A. Pal, eds.

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Cyberpower: The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet

By Tim Jordan

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

She Laughed All the Way to the Bank: Financial Empowerment for Canadian Women

By Cindy Skrukwa

I was at lunch recently with single female friends, mostly professionals, when someone joked about being afraid of ending up as a “bag lady.”My friend’s fear, though not entirely justified, reflects an insecurity I think ... Read More »

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference