Heave

There have been many successful novels that never venture far beyond the confines of a single character’s mind. But if an author is going to set such narrow parameters, then there had better be something ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Journeymind

By Brad Thomas Batten

A car skids on black ice on Avenue Road in Toronto. As the unnamed narrator lies badly injured by the roadside, the souls of his fellow victims, lover Elle and his father, slip “like eels, ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Romancing the Bard: Stratford at Fifty

By Martin Hunter

Martin Hunter’s look at the first 50 years of the popular Stratford Festival is well illustrated with production shots drawn from a gallery of renowned theatre photographers. Each chapter is adorned by pleasing anecdotes and ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Wilderness Called Home: Dispatches from the Wild Heart of Canada

By Charles Wilkins

In Charles Wilkins’ odyssey to the mountains, rainforests, and seacoasts of our country, two questions dominate: What is the nature of the Canadian attachment to our land and water; and what constitutes a life justifiably ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

University of Toronto: A History

By Martin Friedland

In the bowels of U of T’s rare books library are many leather-bound, Atlas-sized volumes of media clippings on Nobel Prize winner Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of insulin. Banting made his secretary locate these media ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: History

Divine Hunger: Canadians on Spiritual Walkabout

By Peter C. Emberly

What are baby boomers seeking on the spiritual plane? Peter C. Emberly, a professor and media commentator, attempts to answer this question through a series of interviews with more than 350 Canadian boomers in Divine ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Skin Folk

By Nalo Hopkinson

Skin Folk is the first collection of short stories from Toronto’s Nalo Hopkinson, whose novels Brown Girl in the Ring and Midnight Robber earned her a number of science-fiction awards, including the Philip K. Dick ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Long Time Relationship

By Julie Doucet

Montreal-born Julie Doucet is an internationally renowned comics artist, part of a renaissance that emerged in North America in the 1980s and ’90s that recognized comics as a subtle and effective storytelling medium. Although she’s ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Midnight Cab

By James W. Nichol

The blurb on the back of Midnight Cab makes a brave – or possibly suicidal – claim that aspects of this mystery are “worthy of Thomas Harris.” The surprise is that the comparison is not ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta

By Aritha van Herk

Mavericks, the fifth instalment in Penguin Canada’s provincial histories series, is a strange beast. Each chapter tackles a different subject in an episodic, mostly chronological format, but the history is decidedly untraditional in that it ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: History

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