Awol: Tales for Travel-inspired Minds

What a good idea: compile brief, true travel narratives from a selection of well-known and up-and-coming Canadian novelists, poets, editors, and journalists. With AWOL, editors Jennifer Barclay and Amy Logan have outdone themselves. Their selections ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Loop

By Anne Simpson

Loop is East Coast poet and novelist Anne Simpson’s second book of poetry. Her first, Light Falls Through You, was the winner of both the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the 2001 League of Canadian Poets’ ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

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By Ken Sparling

From its non-title to its long stretches of white space, Ken Sparling’s novel without a name announces itself as “experimental fiction.” Sparling has long been a student and champion of literary minimalism, and he takes ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Risking It All: My Student, My Lover, My Story

By Heather E. Ingram

Heather Ingram’s memoir about her affair with a 17-year-old student explores one of today’s trickiest topics – the sexual exploitation of minors. In Risking It All Ingram recounts her stark childhood, the emotionally and sexually ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists

By Taras Grescoe

These are grim times for travel writing. The glory years, of course, were 1980s and ’90s, when countless authors set out in search of a share of the riches discovered by giants like Bruce Chatwin ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Requiem for a Giant: A.v. Roe and the Avro Arrow

By Palmiro Campagna

Numerous books have been written about the rise of A.V. Roe Canada and its development of the Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor plane, raising the question: can another book about the subject add anything significant to ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Original Minds

By Eleanor Wachtel

Imagine a lively cocktail party filled with fascinating people, like former Goon Show star Jonathan Miller, chimp specialist Jane Goodall, neurologist Oliver Sacks, filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, scholar Harold Bloom, and urban planner Jane Jacobs. Imagine ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

Foreigners

By Stephen Finucan

Stephen Finucan’s second book of short fiction offers readers a paragraph from Emerson’s Self Reliance as an epigraph. The paragraph includes the famous lines: “Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Beyond the Crazy House: Changing the Future of Madness

By Pat Capponi

A key area has fallen through the cracks in the follow-up discussions to the Romanow Commission on Canada’s health care system: mental health. Thankfully, activist Pat Capponi has been paying close attention to the fate ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Black Bird

By Michel Basilières

Michel Basilières’ Black Bird is a bitter novel – bitterly funny and full of sour memories of a Montreal and a Quebec that no longer exist. As such it will undoubtedly be very popular with ... Read More »