Reviews

The Night Season

The Night Season is about the wanderings, literal and figurative, of a fifty-something, newly single, out-of-work academic in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Paul Bowdring’s second novel is a melancholy story that winds its way through Joycean-like ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The County of Birches

By Judith Kalman

Judith Kalman’s The County of Birches is a collection of 14 linked stories that attempts to transform history into fiction, to make biography into art.The names are different, but the characters are those found in ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Man from the Creeks

By Robert Kroetsch

Gold makes men dizzy, it stirs crazy dreams, and then come the hasty books explaining why it never was and how everybody should have seen through it from the start. That, anyway, is the Bre-X ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wild Garden: Art, Education, and the Culture of Resistance

By Dian Marino, Ferne Cristall, et al., illus.

In the contemporary art world Dian Marino is not a name that stands out. In the world of art education, however, she is a maverick for turning passivity into resistance and building verbal expression into ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Recipes of Champions

By Martin Glynn et al.

Scandalous politics and cheating aside, at its very purest, the modern Olympic spirit reaches lofty heights of idealism. As track coach Andy Higgins writes in his introduction to The Recipes of Champions, “every single one ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Electric Language

By Eric McLuhan

In Electric Language Eric McLuhan takes as a starting point his father’s premise that the monopoly print has held as the main mode of communication since the 15th century is fading and, in its place, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Canadian Nuclear Weapons: The Untold Story of Canada’s Cold War Arsenal

By John Clearwater

John Clearwater, a military-strategic analyst with the Department of National Defence, creates “an operational-technical history” in Canadian Nuclear Weapons, reconstructing the story of those weapons in Canada between 1963 and 1984.Nuclear weapons on Canadian soil ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: History

Moral Leadership: Facing Canada’s Leadership Crisis

By Robert C. Evans

Toronto outplacement counsellor Robert Evans has found the enemy – it is us, the Canadian people. He contends that the country has lost its moral compass, and few organizations escape his wrath.“We seem not to ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Cult of Impotence: Selling the Myth of Powerlessness in the Global Economy

By Linda McQuaig

Since she quit newspaper reporting in the 1980s, Linda McQuaig has transformed herself into a most unlikely industry, writing a string of books about Canadian macroeconomic theory that have become popular hits. Her formula, in ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Father and Daughter Tales

By Josephine Evetts-Secker, Helen Cann, illus.

As psychologist Bruno Bettelheim noted in The Uses of Enchantment, folk tales are important to the psychological well-being of children. Jungians have long shared similar views, so it is not surprising to find that Josephine ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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