Reviews

The Heart Does Not Bend

Makeda Silvera is the author of two collections of short stories, but she is probably better known as an editor and co-founder of Sister Vision Press than as a writer. The Heart Does Not Bend, ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Vernacular Drawings

By Seth

Cartoonist and illustrator Seth has played a definitive role in the modern underground comics movement. His illustration work has been seen in such publications as New York, The Globe and Mail, and The Washington Post, ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Last Trip to Oregon: Poems in the Wake of Red’s Death

By George Payerle

Introductions to poetry collections can be a letdown for a reader, mapping too definitively terrain that should be left unexplored until one reaches the end. The introduction to George Payerle’s latest collection, however, poignantly explores ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Holding Pattern

By Shane Rhodes

This second poetry collection from Shane Rhodes takes a good long look at dualities. A selective list of the themes covered (and uncovered) in Holding Pattern might include memory and experience, science and religion, heterosexual ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture

By Bruce Grenville, ed.

The Uncanny is an ambitious compilation of essays relating to one of the past century’s most persistent images: the cyborg. Written by various cultural theorists, curators, and media critics, and complemented by neat images of ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Rediscovering the Great Plains: Journeys by Dog, Canoe, and Horse

By Norman Henderson

The open prairies tend to be ignored or considered fleetingly by many urbanites, a blur from a car heading elsewhere. But in the last decade titles like Don Gayton’s The Wheatgrass Mechanism, Sharon Butala’s The ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Freetown Ambush: A Reporter’s Year in Africa

By Ian Stewart

Most journalists are willing to endure the sacrifices of the job – mediocre pay, deadline stress, intrusions into personal life among them – because they adore being a conduit between events and the public. Foreign ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Ten Thousand Scorpions: The Search for the Queen of Sheba’s Gold

By Larry Frolick

Larry Frolick is the brother of Vernon Frolick, author of the bestselling Fire into Ice, a biography of entrepreneurial geologist Chuck Fipke, the man who discovered Canada’s northern diamond deposits. Larry Frolick’s Ten Thousand Scorpions ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World’s Water

By Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

Authors Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke are well known as globe-travelling gadflies taking on NAFTA, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, and other corporate-driven agreements that aim to privatize public services and deprive citizens of local ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Pilgrim in Ireland: A Quest for Home

By Frances Greenslade

A Pilgrim in Ireland begins with Regina writer Frances Greenslade’s participation in a traditional Sto:lo autumn equinox gathering in the coastal mountains of B.C. “The ancestors are close,” she muses before realizing, jarringly, “Not my ... Read More »