It is no doubt advisable to resist tightrope tropes while reviewing a novel that has at its heart a Transylvanian wire-walker. However, in Ascension, Steven Galloway performs a feat deserving of big top applause. In ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The first Dropped Threads anthology, the brainchild of Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, was a Canadian publishing phenomenon. Book clubs across the country seized on the collection of true stories about what women aren’t told ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Writers who stray from the pro-George W. Bush bandwagon are finding a growing readership eager for analysis that transcends the good/evil dichotomy that marks much media coverage of recent world events. Among those writers is ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: History
Lesley Anne Cowan’s debut novel makes good use of the motto “write what you know.” As She Grows tells the story of 15-year-old Snow, who struggles to avoid making the same bad lifestyle choices as ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Stage Irishmen – that’s what they’re called – those ones you see in theatre and on screen. They lard their lilting speeches with begoshes and begorras and cross themselves while traversing the peat bog because ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
If motherhood is the second-oldest profession, mistressdom followed soon after. It is an evocative word, “mistress,” suggesting sensual sophistication and luxury. Elizabeth Abbott’s A History of Mistresses sets out to determine whether the reality matches ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: History
Lincoln Clarkes is a Canadian fashion photographer who has made his mark both at home and in Paris and London. In 1996 he began a series of photographs whose subjects could not be less glamorous ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Having Canadian author and journalistic icon Pierre Berton explain the secret to making a living as a writer – and, to no writer’s surprise, the secret is military-like self-discipline, exhaustive research, grim determination, and hard ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The idea behind Timbit Nation was for John Stackhouse, former New Delhi correspondent for The Globe and Mail, to see his own country as a foreigner might see it. After almost eight years of reporting ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Reference
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