Disarmament

The bleak, hopeful town of Hamilton, Ontario – with its steel mills and slowly resurgent parklands – finds an apt poet laureate in John Terpstra. His seventh collection, Disarmament, focuses mainly on the city’s landscapes ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

A Stone’s Throw: The Enduring Nature of Myth

By Ross Laird

Of the four elements, earth is the most silent. And yet writing and painting found on the Earth’s stones are also our only form of communication with lost ancestors. Like this, its central symbol, Ross ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ An Adoration

By Nancy Huston

Already a bestseller in France, Nancy Huston’s latest novel is both an affecting portrait of real and sympathetic characters and literary high art. Taking the form of the direct testimony of witnesses at a murder ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky

By Karen X. Tulchinsky

Set in the harrowing years of the Depression, the Second World War, and the Holocaust, Karen Tulchinsky’s The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky is a major departure for the Vancouver novelist, screenwriter, and editor of ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister

By Maggie de Vries

Robert Pickton has been accused of crimes that, if he’s convicted, would make him the worst serial killer in Canadian history. But few Canadians could likely name even one of the women he is charged ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

All Hell Can’t Stop Us: The On-to-ottawa Trek and Regina Riot

By Bill Waiser

Historian Bill Waiser has done a remarkable job of resurrecting a landmark, but ill-remembered, chapter in Canadian history with his excellent depiction of the 1935 On-to-Ottawa protest trek. The trek to Ottawa was a country-wide ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Glenwood Treasure

By Kim Moritsugu

Toronto author Kim Moritsugu’s third novel takes place in a slightly altered version of her home city. As she explains in an afterword, she’s combined the two neighbourhoods of Rosedale and Moore Park to create ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tommy: The Life and Times of Tommy Douglas

By Walter Stewart

Tommy Douglas was the one-time leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) party – the precursor of today’s NDP. He has also had his fair share of coverage in the press and in a few ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Verandah People

By Jonathan Bennett

From the title of this collection of short stories, you might expect a series of languid tales that unfold during a relaxing day in the countryside. You’d be wrong. This follow-up to Bennett’s debut novel, ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike

By Jennifer Duncan

Jennifer Duncan is the sort of person you’d like to meet around a campfire or at a cozy pub on a snowy night – a true woman of the Yukon, a woman who can tell ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Disarmament

A Stone’s Throw: The Enduring Nature of Myth

★ An Adoration

The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky

Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister

All Hell Can’t Stop Us: The On-to-ottawa Trek and Regina Riot

The Glenwood Treasure

Tommy: The Life and Times of Tommy Douglas

Verandah People

Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike

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