Reviews

Ariadne’s Dream

Tess Fragoulis’s first novel sets out to retell, without doggedly adhering to the original’s constraints, the ancient Greek myth of Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, who gave her lover, Theseus, the thread that helped ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Maelstrom

By Peter Watts

Science fiction blended with action adventure – the techno thriller – has been around since Ian Fleming first outfitted James Bond with an Inspector Gadget-sized arsenal of hi-tech toys. But the excitement and intrigue of ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Turning Samoan

By Dennis Chute

Kurt Vonnegut once wrote that while a serious writer may spin an entire career’s worth of books out of one Big Idea, comic writers must forever be coming up with fresh jokes. He also wrote ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Behind the Face of Winter

By H. Nigel Thomas

The novel of immigration has emerged as an important genre in recent years, with such works as Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco’s Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers and Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here heading a list ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Walter Gretzky: On Family, Hockey and Healing

By Walter Gretzky

Walter Gretzky is best known as Canada’s ultimate hockey dad, whose love of the sport and unremitting support have guided three of his children to varying degrees of success on the ice. But Gretzky has ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Prisoners of Cabrera: Napoleon’s Forgotten Soldiers, 1809-1814

By Denis Smith

Hidden in a pine forest on the island of Cabrera near Majorca, a “stubby obelisque” pays silent homage to the memory of the thousands of Frenchmen who died there. The monument is dated 1847 but ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Cult of Efficiency

By Janice Gross Stein

Janice Stein is a highly regarded political scientist at the University of Toronto who specializes in international conflict and security issues. Why, then, has she written the 2001 Massey Lectures on “the cult of efficiency,” ... Read More »

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

The Salt Spring Experience: Recipes for Body, Mind and Spirit

By Sharada Filkow and Mayana Williamson

In The Greek Myths, Robert Graves explained that ambrosia, worshipped in pre-Classical Greece for its ability to produce “hallucinations, senseless rioting, prophetic sight and erotic energy,” was actually hallucinogenic mushrooms. Another branch of metaphysics that ... Read More »

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

Searching for Certainty: Inside the New Canadian Mindset

By Darrell Bricker and Edward Greenspon

Nothing is rotten in the state of Canada if you believe Searching for Certainty, the joint work of The Globe & Mail’s longtime Ottawa correspondent Edward Greenspon and veteran pollster Darrell Bricker. Canadians don’t mind ... Read More »

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

Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer

By Steve Mann and Hal Niedzviecki

As a youth, Steve Mann fantasized about repairing televisions and radios. The world of the senses, of physical touch, of non-technological interaction – the so-called real experiences of stars at night, rosy sunsets, or leaves ... Read More »

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

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