Verandah People

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

If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground

By J. Edward Chamberlin

Ted Chamberlin teaches comparative literature at the University of Toronto and has worked on native land claims in the United States, Canada, Africa, and Australia. He is also a former poetry editor for Saturday Night ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History

★ Homebaking: The Artful Mix of Flour and Tradition Around the World

By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss taught us that food not only keeps people alive, but with all the associated rituals and myths of preparation and consumption, it also keeps peoples alive – that is, food is ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Booze: A Spirited History

By Craig Heron

What started as an art exhibition about working class people and drinking has evolved into Craig Heron’s unique social history of alcohol in Canada. Covering a period that ranges from the European colonists’ introduction of ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History

Weapons of Mass Distraction: Soft Power and American Empire

By Matthew Fraser

Weapons of Mass Distraction ends with the words “yes, things really do go better with Coke.” That sentence sums up both the thesis and the moral of National Post editor Matthew Fraser’s most recent book. ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson

By David Silcox

Coffee-table books dedicated to the works of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven have been something of a Canadian cottage industry for decades now. It’s hard to imagine at this point, but as David ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Naked Truth: The Untold Story of Sex in Canada

By Chris Gudgeon

No topic elicits a broader array of responses than that of sex. From prim-lipped silence to raunchy histrionics, perhaps no nation embodies these differing attitudes more than Canada. Or at least that is the tack ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business

By Madelaine Drohan

In a story unlikely to endear her to editors of the business pages, journalist Madelaine Drohan tackles the growing corporate use of mercenary armies to protect their business interests. Making a Killing focuses on Africa, ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Last Cowboy

By Lee Gowan

The word “cowboy” comes freighted with so many different meanings. For immigrants from Europe, Asia, or Africa, it can be romance personified, a somewhat updated version of the medieval knight, out riding the range, communing ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Verandah People

Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike

If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground

★ Homebaking: The Artful Mix of Flour and Tradition Around the World

Booze: A Spirited History

Weapons of Mass Distraction: Soft Power and American Empire

The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson

The Naked Truth: The Untold Story of Sex in Canada

Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business

The Last Cowboy

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