Chee Chee: A Study of Aboriginal Suicide

Ojibwe-Algonquin artist Benjamin Chee Chee committed suicide in 1977, just as he was about to achieve international stardom. Author Alvin Evans, a psychotherapist and an expert in suicide, believes that Chee Chee’s death was a ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

By Eva-Marie Kroller, ed.

The idea that anything approaching an authoritative analysis of Canadian fiction, or nature-writing, or aboriginal writing, can be undertaken in essays of 20 pages or so is almost laughable. But that’s the challenge faced by ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Damaged Angels: A Mother Discovers the Invisible Cost of Alcohol in Pregnancy

By Bonnie Buxton

It wasn’t until her troubled adopted daughter was in her teens that Bonnie Buxton even heard the term Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Damaged Angels outlines, with brutal honesty, the cost of FASD, the difficult ... Read More »

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

Fresh at Home: Everyday Vegetarian Cooking

By Ruth Tal Brown and Jennifer Houston

The bill of fare at Fresh, a chain of three popular vegan juice bar/restaurants in Toronto, is the basis of this cookbook, the second for the authors, who co-own the chain. The recipes appear in ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Who Killed the Canadian Military?

By J.L. Granatstein

After 50 years of political mismanagement, declining budgets, over-commitment, and broken promises, the Canadian Armed Forces will soon need to cease all large-scale operations for at least two years. Regardless of whatever short-term cash injections ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage

By Katherine Govier, ed.

I have always wanted to open a review with a quote from the prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; now I finally have my chance. Ahem: spring is the season “whan longen folk to goon on ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

River Time: Racing the Ghosts of the Klondike Rush

By John Firth

The Yukon River has been called the world’s longest museum. This makes it the perfect setting for River Time, Whitehorse author John Firth’s paean to the Klondike.Firth is president of the Yukon River Marathon Paddling ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Midnight Hour: Canadian Accounts of Eerie Experiences

By John Robert Colombo

Is Canada a scary place? Our nation’s “master gatherer,” John Robert Colombo, certainly seems to think so. The veteran anthologizer and storyteller has already compiled a vast array of books on Canadian examples of the ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Marketing the War Against Iraq

By Paul Rutherford

The invasion and occupation of Iraq has spawned a cottage industry of books ranging from tomes with 20-20 hindsight to rhetorical rants calling on the free world to take out anyone who looks askance at ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Long Run

By Leo Furey

You might expect a novel about a Catholic orphanage in St. John’s in 1960 to be a grim tale of religious bullying and physical and sexual abuse. The powerful first chapter in Brother McCann’s classroom, ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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