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Invisible Darkness: The Strange Case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

Unlike its hastily assembled cousins, Stephen Williams’ Invisible Darkness (handsomely designed and published in a hefty hardcover format) promises a more thoughtful, comprehensive analysis of Karla and Paul and, a reader would hope, at least ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Racism, Sexism, and the University: The Political Science Affair at the University of British Columbia

By M. Patricia Marchak

Canadian universities are being torn apart by battles over racism and sexism, by what has been collectively called political correctness. Old white male heterosexual professors, the supporters of the great books (all by older white ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Arousing Sensation: A Case Study of Controversy Surrounding Art and the Erotic

By Sylvie Gilbert, ed.

As contemporary art curator at Banff’s Walter Phillips Gallery, Sylvie Gilbert spent five years organizing issue-oriented exhibitions like Much Sense: Erotics and Life. Featuring installations by Maureen Connor, Robert Flack, and Kiss & Tell, as ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Voices of Fire: Art, Rage, Power and the State

By Bruce Barber, Serge Guilbaut, John O’Brian, eds.

Not many have forgotten the controversy that surrounded Barnett Newman’s Voice of Fire when the National Gallery of Canada announced in 1990 that it had purchased the work for a cool $1.79-million. For eight months ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ The Great Shadow: Arthur Conan Doyle, Brigadier-General Gerard and Napoleon

By Clifford S. Goldfarb

What happened in the decade (1893–1903) between Sherlock Holmes’ disappearance over the Reichenbach Falls and his resurrection before an astonished Watson in “The Empty House,” a decade which Conan Doyle planned to devote to his ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Guns of Victory: A Soldier’s Eye View, Belgium, Holland, and Germany 1944-45

By George G. Blackburn

Ottawa writer George Blackburn’s The Guns of Normandy was one of the unheralded publishing successes of 1995, its virtues touted by word of mouth among old soldiers and military historians. Deservedly so, too, because it ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: History

A House Divided: The Untold Story of the McCain Family

By Doug Waldie with Kate Jennison

The rise and subsequent demise of Canada’s potato kings is told in this superb chronicle. A family and social history as well as a business analysis, it’s a provocative text for any family firm that ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Blue Limbo

By Terence M. Green

Terence M. Green’s new novel, Blue Limbo, gets off to a fast start. When we first meet Green’s protagonist, Toronto police detective Mitch Helwig, he’s blowing up a drug kingpin’s warehouse singlehandedly. The opening scene ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Deemed Unsuitable: The Search for Equality in Canada’s Prairie Provinces by Blacks from Oklahoma

By R. Bruce Shepard

Many Canadians feel extreme pride about their country’s role in the operation of the Underground Railroad. But Saskatchewan historian R. Bruce Shepard suggests that the much revered virtue of Canadian tolerance has been mostly a ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: History

Brasseur & Eisler: To Catch a Dream

By Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, with Lynda Prouse

This biography of figure-skating duo Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler is an attempt to dissect what appears to come naturally to the pair. While both had successful careers before they met, their union was a ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Invisible Darkness: The Strange Case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

Racism, Sexism, and the University: The Political Science Affair at the University of British Columbia

Arousing Sensation: A Case Study of Controversy Surrounding Art and the Erotic

Voices of Fire: Art, Rage, Power and the State

★ The Great Shadow: Arthur Conan Doyle, Brigadier-General Gerard and Napoleon

★ The Guns of Victory: A Soldier’s Eye View, Belgium, Holland, and Germany 1944-45

A House Divided: The Untold Story of the McCain Family

Blue Limbo

Deemed Unsuitable: The Search for Equality in Canada’s Prairie Provinces by Blacks from Oklahoma

Brasseur & Eisler: To Catch a Dream

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