Abel’s Outback

I remember coming across the work of Allen Abel soon after the Globe and Mail posted him to China in 1983. His informative dispatches were written with quirky humour and a sideways way of seeing, ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle

By Charles Long

In the 1960s and 70s, young, middle-class North Americans got the message loud and clear: follow your hearts, do whatever you want, drop out, be happy. The children of post-war boom years, they were well ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Selling Online: How to Become a Successul E-commerce Merchant in Canada

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

Some people believe the World Wide Web will usher in a new era of peace and social justice. Some say it’s the greatest invention since the taming of fire. Others say simply, “Let’s go shopping!” ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Good Enough Life: The Dying Speak

By Susan Gabori

Death becomes both of these authors as they attempt to address the taboos, denial, and rituals associated with this ancient and inescapable rite of passage. Katherine Ashenburg and Susan Gabori, both journalists, attempt to personalize ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Vixen

By Lynette D’anna

Readers with an insatiable thirst for darkness and depravity might enjoy Vixen, Lynette D’anna’s novel that explores an obsessive relationship in several short vignettes. Those wishing to avoid another trip to the literary circle of ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Thunder and Light

By Marie-Claire Blais,Nigel Spencer, trans.

Thunder and Light is the sequel to Marie-Claire Blais’ astonishing These Festive Nights (1997), a novel that won international praise – and a Governor General’s Award – in its original French version, Soifs. Another book ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life

By Camilla Gibb

Given the certainties of death, misfortune, and betrayal, why do we persevere in trying to build lives of usefulness and contentment? Toronto’s Camilla Gibb looks for answers in her second novel, The Petty Details of ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast

By Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane, eds.

Many famous writers have been addicted to alcohol or drugs; the names of Malcolm Lowry, William S. Burroughs, Margaret Laurence, and Gwendolyn MacEwen come immediately to mind. But those who wrote about their addictions often ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

Angel in the Sun: Turner’s Vision of History

By Gerald Hanley

War is not a picturesque scene. Yet J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), an eminent historical landscape painter of the romantic era, managed to draw beauty out of darkness without glorifying it. Scorched with symbolism and allegory, the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Simple Recipes

By Madeleine Thien

In the title story in this collection a father cooks for his family with meticulous love, weighing out the rice in his fingers, frying the fish that only a short time before was still swimming. ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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Abel’s Outback

How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle

Selling Online: How to Become a Successul E-commerce Merchant in Canada

A Good Enough Life: The Dying Speak

Vixen

★ Thunder and Light

The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life

Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast

Angel in the Sun: Turner’s Vision of History

★ Simple Recipes

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