The Border: Canada, the U.s. and Adventures Along the 49th Parallel

Things have been a little defensive along both sides of “the world’s longest undefended border” of late. According to Toronto political scientist and journalist James Laxer, that’s hardly a novel situation, and it’s unlikely to ... Read More »

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

Prairie People: A Celebration of My Homeland

By Robert Collins

Veteran journalist Robert Collins has compiled a kind of field guide to the prairie provinces that is both homage and mythology. The book consists of short pieces that are collected in chapters with such titles ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History

Transient Dancing

By Gale Zoë Garnett

Transient Dancing, Gale Zoë Garnett’s follow-up novel to her much-acclaimed Visible Amazement, opens in 1995 with a brawl between the only two black men on a small Greek island. The men are Johnny Reed, an ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean

By Ken McGoogan

In his previous book, Fatal Passage, Ken McGoogan masterfully rescued John Rae, the underappreciated explorer, from obscurity. Because his subject was not well known, even amongst Arctic aficionados, McGoogan was able to create a non-academic ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Knucklehead

By W. Mark Giles

Knucklehead, W. Mark Giles’ first collection of short fiction, is an eclectic mix of stories and experimental pieces. The title and cover art are misleading, implying yet another collection of gritty urban tales of boozers ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Dark Side: The Personal Price of a Political Life

By Steve Paikin

The Dark Side should be a more interesting book than it is. The subject matter is inherently engaging: failed governments and failed marriages, backroom betrayals and public humiliation – all the worst things about living ... Read More »

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

Distance

By Jack Hodgins

For several years my parents had a painting by a well-known local artist hung in their living room. The painting was a typical, post-Group of Seven landscape of the Canadian Shield. The lake looked properly ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Succession

By Art Norris

Succession is another tale of the strains and glories of homecoming, told here through a sequence of linked stories connected to Al, a journeyman musician who, after years of playing bass in Vancouver bar bands, ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Old Scores: A Barry Gilbert Mystery

By Scott Mackay

Old Scores is the third episode of the contemporary Toronto-based police procedural series featuring Detective Barry Gilbert. When the body of sleazy drug-addicted music agent and fixer Glen Boyd is found by a collection agent ... Read More »

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

River of the Brokenhearted

By David Adams Richards

And you thought the Kennedys had it bad with a couple of assassinations and a plane crash. The latest saga by Giller Prize-winner David Adams Richards centres on a family so cursed and shoved about ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The Border: Canada, the U.s. and Adventures Along the 49th Parallel

Prairie People: A Celebration of My Homeland

Transient Dancing

Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean

Knucklehead

The Dark Side: The Personal Price of a Political Life

Distance

Succession

Old Scores: A Barry Gilbert Mystery

River of the Brokenhearted

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