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Money Players: How Hockey’s Greatest Stars Beat the Nhl at Its Own Game

The Calgary-based sportswriter Bruce Dowbiggin is pushing hard to become Canada’s next great chronicler of our national pastime. Dowbiggin, a frequent hockey commentator on radio and television and a writer for the Calgary Herald, has ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Opium Lady

By Joanne Soper-Cook

Imagine moving into a house and finding an old family photo album tucked deep in the corner of a dusty bedroom closet, flipping through the photos, and inventing intricate stories for the strangers in the ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Ways of the Wilderness: A Personal Journey Through Religion and Literature

By Anne McPherson

Ways of the Wilderness, the new book from Ontario writer and art curator Anne McPherson, is rooted in McPherson’s academic work some 40 years ago. Inspired by H.A. Williams’ The True Wilderness, McPherson realized that ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Parlance

By Suzanne Zelazo

Though Parlance is her first book-length publication of poetry, Toronto poet Suzanne Zelazo’s name is likely familiar to many through her role as editor of the Queen Street Quarterly. This literary magazine has a reputation ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Women in a World at War: Seven Dispatches from the Front

By Madeleine Gagnon, Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, trans.

Women in a World at War, by Quebec writer Madeleine Gagnon, is an extraordinary work. Less investigative journalism than an extended effort to view the war-torn world through a poet’s gaze, the book crosses borders ... Read More »

November 11, 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

Solemn Vows: A Marc Edwards Mystery

By Don Gutteridge

Early in 2003, Ensign Marc Edwards appeared in Don Gutteridge’s first historical mystery, Turncoat. A few real-time months later, Edwards is back in a new novel set several months later in historical time, already promoted ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wondrous Strange: Glenn Gould, a Biography

By Kevin Bazzana

There are a number of enormous risks inherent in assessing the life of Glenn Gould. The heavy layers of hype and half-truth began to cover Gould around the time of his first public appearances as ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Money Players: How Hockey’s Greatest Stars Beat the Nhl at Its Own Game

The Opium Lady

Ways of the Wilderness: A Personal Journey Through Religion and Literature

Parlance

Women in a World at War: Seven Dispatches from the Front

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

Booze: A Spirited History

Weapons of Mass Distraction: Soft Power and American Empire

Solemn Vows: A Marc Edwards Mystery

Wondrous Strange: Glenn Gould, a Biography

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