Reviews

Crooked Smile: One Family’s Journey Toward Healing

In Crooked Smile, the lives of an upper-middle class Toronto family are shattered when the middle of three children is in a car accident while driving home from the cottage with a teen buddy in ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Guide to Canadian Children’s Books

By Deirdre Baker and Ken Setterington

There are abundant British and American guides to children’s books, but it’s extremely rare to find Canadian titles in their pages. If for no other reason than national pride, we needed McClelland & Stewart’s A ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History

By Penny LeCouteur and Jay Burreson

The story goes that during Napoleon’s Russian campaign tin buttons on the French soldiers’ uniforms disintegrated in the cold. The soldiers were too busy holding up their pants to fight. This is history from an ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

Museum of Bone and Water

By Nicole Brossard, Erin Mouré and Robert Mazjels, trans.

Although not strictly in the tradition of the language poets of the 1970s, Quebecoise poet Nicole Brossard’s work has always been marked by serious language play and Museum of Bone and Water, in an exquisite ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

The Wisdom of Water

By Karen Hood-Caddy

The setting in The Wisdom of Water isn’t Walkerton, Ontario, site of one of the country’s worst environmental disasters, but it’s eerily similar: tainted water from an outdated treatment plant, malfunctioning equipment, and an irresponsible ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Aids Activist: Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community

By Ann Silversides

At a time when one of the largest annual gatherings in Toronto is the Gay Pride parade, it’s significant to recall that such an outpouring of support for the lesbian and gay community would not ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Dreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest

By David Spaner

There’s a telling moment in David Spaner’s book on the history of Vancouver filmmaking when West Coast writer and director Bruce Sweeney arrives at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival’s opening-night gala with his award-winning ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin’s Lieutenant

By Peter Steele

Whitehorse author Peter Steele is a biographer who has done his share of northern travelling. In The Man Who Mapped the Arctic, Steele turns his attention to one of the hardiest 19th-century Arctic explorers, George ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

An Innocent in Newfoundland: Even More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters

By David McFadden

Fans of the Toronto poet, non-fiction writer, and all-round wit David McFadden have become familiar with his trademark travel-narrative style through his previous books An Innocent in Scotland and An Innocent in Ireland. McFadden now ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

The Spaces in Between: Selected Poems, 1965-2001

By Stephen Scobie

In a country rich in, and appreciative of, its poets and poetry, Victoria writer Stephen Scobie has never quite received the attention that he is due. A noted academic, and winner of the 1980 Governor ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

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