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City of Forgetting

“Je me souviens” proclaims the provincial licence plate, but the Montreal of Robert Majzels’ new novel seems haunted: half-remembered myths, dreams, and histories surface and collide in its melting springtime steets. And even as Majzel’s ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Westray: The Long Way Home

By Chris O’Neill and Ken Schwartz

Chris O’Neill and Ken Schwartz, the authors of Westray: The Long Way Home, are co-artistic directors of the theatre company Two Planks and a Passion, based in Canning, Nova Scotia.This play is part of an ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Reading Hebron

By Jason Sherman

The 1994 Hebron massacre in which a Jewish settler named Baruch Goldstein opened fire on a group of Muslims at prayer, murdering 29 of them before he himself was killed, prompted bitter debate in the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, 2nd Edition

By Eugene Benson and William Toye,eds.

Where are we in our literary history? It’s a question that comes up. People want to know. They see Canadian novels sprouting like never before, they notice Canadian writers finding foreign readerships, winning international prizes. ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

★ Symbolization and Its Discontents

By Dr. Jeanne Randolph, ed. Steve Reinke

Forget logic for a moment. Think about two words: “Technological Ethos.” Imagine what that might mean. Here’s a clue: It penetrates every contemporary theory going, from modernism to postmodernism to anti-postmodernism and the future which, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ The Hidden Room: Collected Poems/Volumes One and Two

By P.K. Page; P.K. Page

Every few years an important and essential book emerges reminding us of the rich and impressive legacy of our best senior poets. I think of Milton Acorn’s Dig Up My Heart, Irving Layton’s A Wild ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Pig That Flew: The Battle to Privatize Canadian National

By Harry Bruce

If there is a thin thread that connects these two books it is the railroad. And that’s what tied Canada together soon after Confederation; Maritime entry was induced by the promise of the Inter-Colonial Railway, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: History

National Dreams: Myth, Memory, and Canadian History

By Daniel Francis

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: History

Fury: Inside the Life of Théoren Fleury

By Andrew Malcolm

When the Calgary Flames drafted Théoren Fleury in the eighth round of the National Hockey League’s 1987 entry draft, some scouts laughed out loud. Despite the impressive number of goals, assists, and penalty minutes he ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Fitzgerald’s Storm: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

By Joseph MacInnis

Joseph MacInnis was the first man to dive under the North Pole and one of the first to dive to the Titanic. The latter escapade produced the best-selling Titanic: In a New Light. In Fitzgerald’s ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: History

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City of Forgetting

Westray: The Long Way Home

Reading Hebron

★ The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, 2nd Edition

★ Symbolization and Its Discontents

★ The Hidden Room: Collected Poems/Volumes One and Two

The Pig That Flew: The Battle to Privatize Canadian National

National Dreams: Myth, Memory, and Canadian History

Fury: Inside the Life of Théoren Fleury

Fitzgerald’s Storm: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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