Windows 95 Simplified

Our society has always been good at hyperbole; look at the whole Elvis phenomenon. Overweight, drug-addicted rock star goes from has-been to messiah-in-waiting just by dying relatively young in a particularly messy way. Marilyn Monroe, ... Read More »

March 29, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

How to Use Windows 95

By Douglas Hergert

March 29, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Haida Gwaii

By Ian Gill, David Nunuk

Writer-photographer team Ian Gill and David Nunuk have paired up for a second book about Canada’s West Coast, Haida Gwaii. Though the colour photographs that document their three journeys hiking, sailing, and kayaking through the ... Read More »

March 25, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

New World Noodles

By Bill Jones, Stephen Wong

With such vivid photos, readers can almost smell the ginger and hoisin sauce in New World Noodles, a cookbook by Pacific Rim food consultants Bill Jones and Stephen Wong. Wong is best-known in book circles ... Read More »

March 25, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Magnificent Entertainments

By Cynthia Cooper

In the final quarter of the last century, Canada’s elite let down their Victorian hair on four separate occasions to attend lavish fancy-dress balls unequalled in the nascent Dominion. In Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal, bankers, ... Read More »

March 25, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Lives of Shadows

A dozen years ago, when Barbara Hodgson and Nick Bantock were brainstorming on the name for their West Coast book design company, they wanted something that would reflect their passion for travel and ideals of ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Dark Age Ahead: Caution

By Jane Jacobs

Some six centuries before the Christian era began, the prophet Jeremiah lamented: “How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people.” That agile-minded social observer, Jane Jacobs, has written a jeremiad of sorts, ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Last Honest Man, Mordecai Richler: An Oral Biography

By Michael Posner

Mordecai Richler would have hated the idea of being the subject of a hagiography. Everything his writing represented is antithetical to a family-sanctioned, cultural industry-approved biography. Besides, Richler believed that there was something oddly emboldening ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Best Thing For You

By Annabel Lyon

Annabel Lyon is a sharp, funny, and subversive writer who knows how to keep her readers off-balance. Reviews of her first short-story collection, Oxygen, were ecstatic, and the trio of long stories that comprise The ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Address Book

By Steven Heighton

The poems in Steven Heighton’s fourth collection cover subjects from mixed tapes to dreamy landscapes, but all are painted with introspection, and all worthy of slow digestion. The Address Book is a portrait of an ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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