Everyone in Silico

The increasing power of corporations and advertisers in contemporary society has gotten a lot of press in recent years and has become fodder for fiction, especially science fiction. In this, his third novel, Toronto writer ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Swimming in the Ocean

By Catherine Jenkins

The narrator of poet Catherine Jenkins' first novel, a self-proclaimed love addict – “I want love and so I make love happen and so I am vulnerable and restless” – finds solace on a beach ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Outskirts: Women Writing from Small Places

By Emily Schultz,ed.

I began to worry while reading the introduction to Outskirts. Politely informed that “Outskirts is an anthology that gives rural women a voice,” I couldn’t help but think that if any single demographic has fully ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Back Flip

By Anne Denoon

Readers may not have given much thought to Toronto in the 1960s, but Anne Denoon has extracted a novel from an even more arcane branch of the city’s historical tree: the milieu of art and ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Story of My Face

By Kathy Page

The Story of My Face begins with Natalie Baron, an academic specialist in religious studies, arriving in the small town of Elijoki, Finland. She has come to research the life and spiritual path of Tuomas ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Red Plaid Shirt: Stories New & Selected

By Diane Schoemperlen

Diane Schoemperlen is something of an acquired taste in the smorgasbord of Canadian fiction, but there’s no doubt that more and more readers are acquiring that taste. After labouring in the obscurity of the literary ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Real Life

By Sharon Butala

We’ve grown used to thinking of evil – if we think of it at all – as something monstrous, destruction you can’t wrap your mind around. Evil is the Holocaust, Sept. 11, war in Rwanda. ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Just Married: Gay Marriage and the Expansion of Human Rights

By Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell

It would seem that a new definition of “family” is needed in the 21st century, and the contribution of the gay community here would be welcome. The topic of legal gay marriage raises some interesting ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

In the Shadow of Silence: From Hitler Youth to Allied Internment: A Young Woman’s Story of Truth and Denial

By Gertrud Mackprang Baer

It is difficult to feel sympathy for someone who voluntarily became a Nazi spy, expected to rat on neighbours, schoolmates, and priests, possibly resulting in their imprisonment or worse. But what if the position was ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Spying 101: The Rcmp’s Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917–1997

By Steve Hewitt

In light of sweeping new police powers approved by the Canadian government last fall, Spying 101 is a timely and valuable document of a shameful chapter in Canadian history. Many readers will be shocked to ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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