Reviews

Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination

Finally, a theoretical examination of contemporary Canadian photography that is not only insightful and impressively researched but is beautifully designed and makes for a darn good read. In Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude

By Ann Vanderhoof

An Embarrassment of Mangoes is an odd mixture of a book – part travel journal, part culinary tour, part Cruising for Dummies (“cruising” is a term habitués use to describe life aboard a pleasure boat). ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs Are Conquering Canada

By Julian Sher and William Marsden

Midway through The Road to Hell, one can’t help but think that nothing unites Canada quite like the pervasive influence of biker organizations – unless it’s the nation’s widespread inability to do anything about them. ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Heart of Conflict: A Spirituality of Transformation

By Dr. Elinor D.U. Powell

There are few writers who can match the clarity, knowledge, and good intentions of Dr. Elinor Powell, a mediator and trainer at the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Management in Victoria. Dr. Powell offers more ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Health & Self-help

D-Day: The Greatest Invasion, A People’s History

By Dan van der Vat

Spearheading the army of books soon to be released for the 60th anniversary of D-Day in 2004 is Dan van der Vat’s D-Day: The Greatest Invasion, A People’s History ($60 cloth 1-55192-586-9, 176 pp., Raincoast ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney’s Café and Other Non-Globalized Places, People and Ideas

By Brian Fawcett

Registering your online vote for the latest round of Canadian Idol or being able to confidently choose among 48 different kinds of extra virgin olive oil should not be mistaken for exercising one’s democratic duty. ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Writers Talking

By John Metcalf and Claire Wilkshire, eds.

For this new Porcupine’s Quill anthology of short fiction, John Metcalf and co-editor Claire Wilkshire have selected eight stories by eight different authors: Michael Winter, Lisa Moore, Steven Heighton, Mary Borsky, K.D. Miller, Terry Griggs, ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Hair Hat

By Carrie Snyder

Short stories, like poems, are often more adept than novels at showcasing tail-ends of thoughts and strange whiffs of emotion. Stories cruise along from moment to moment, bypass or butt up against Meaning, and resist ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

I, Shithead: A Life in Punk

By Joe Keithley

Still ringing hell’s bells after all these years, punk, provocateur, and regular guy Joe Shithead won’t be leaving the stage any time soon. In 1977 he formed the now-legendary Vancouver band D.O.A., at which point ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Journeyman: Travels of a Writer

By Timothy Findley, William Whitehead, ed.

Journeyman showcases many of the qualities that have come to define Timothy Findley’s presence on Canada’s national literary stage. In this collection of articles, speeches, and journal entries that he began compiling years before his ... Read More »