Searching for Sofia: A Balkan Odyssey

As a news editor in Ottawa and Vancouver newsrooms at the time when stories about the Balkans were the top foreign news of the day, I always instructed other editors to wait, no matter what ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

By Kim Vicente

Notwithstanding the soporific title, this book on technology is a lot of fun. Professor of human factors engineering – what we lay people often call ergonomics – Kim Vicente gives readers plenty of real-life examples ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Continuation of Love by Other Means

By Claudia Casper

There’s a thesis to be written, if it hasn’t been already, on the theme of fascism in recent Canadian fiction. Several Timothy Findley novels, most notably Famous Last Words, dealt powerfully with the subject. Michael ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Universal Recipients

By Dana Bath

What if short story authors were forbidden to create characters – particularly women – who cannot get over themselves? And what if there was an embargo on finely crafted little tales of anxiousness, dread, chill, ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Myth of Ability: Nurturing Mathematical Talent in Every Child

By John Mighton

John Mighton is the founder of JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Mathematical Prodigies), an expanding educational charity that has grown to provide free math tutoring to 12 inner-city Toronto schools. The Myth of Ability is the story ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Forever Young: The “teen-aging” of Modern Culture

By Marcel Danesi

In Forever Young, University of Toronto professor Marcel Danesi aims to expose our society’s view of adolescence and its associated “problems” as an artificial construct perpetuated by a media-driven culture. This is worsened, Danesi argues, ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Garbo Laughs

By Elizabeth Hay

Garbo Laughs draws us right into old Ottawa South and onto the Gold family’s front porch. It is fitted out, like a ship, with every necessity of summer life – hammocks, workbench, outdoor faucet, library ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blue Becomes You

By Bettina von Kampen

Blue Becomes You is another of the small-town novels that are nearly as numerous as the communities that inspire them. Sixty-three-year-old Charlotte Weiss has arrhythmia and must retire after more than 40 years as head ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Immigrant Blues

By Goran Simic, Amela Simic , trans.

An unremitting, relentless nostalgia permeates Immigrant Blues, Bosnian poet Goran Simic’s first collection since his Sprinting from the Graveyard encapsulated the siege of Sarajevo in 1997. The new book records a more reflective struggle – ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Still Life with June

By Darren Greer

Cameron Dodds is a 31-year old writer whose work has appeared in crappy little magazines that pay in comp copies. He’s a former drug addict who is now working nights at a Salvation Army Drug ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Searching for Sofia: A Balkan Odyssey

The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

The Continuation of Love by Other Means

Universal Recipients

The Myth of Ability: Nurturing Mathematical Talent in Every Child

Forever Young: The “teen-aging” of Modern Culture

★ Garbo Laughs

Blue Becomes You

Immigrant Blues

Still Life with June

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