Reviews

The Net User’s Guide to Buying, Selling, and Trading Collectibles

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

The Final Confession of Mabel Stark

By Robert Hough

Journalist Robert Hough has played an ironic joke on himself in his first novel, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark. Stark was one of history’s most famous tiger trainers, and her act was the centre-ring ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Waiting for Gertrude

By Bill Richardson

In Waiting for Gertrude, Vancouver writer, broadcaster, and notorious cat-fancier Bill Richardson envisions Paris’s famed Père-Lachaise Cemetery as inhabited by the souls of its notable occupants reincarnated into the bodies of feral cats. Chopin has ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Chaos Mission

By Lorenz Peter

Lorenz Peter’s second graphic novel, Chaos Mission , is an extremely atypical coming-of-age autobiography originally serialized in an underground zine by the same name. Peter’s first graphic novel, The Last Remaining Ancient Mellish Bird, was ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Solitaire: The Intimate Lives of Single Women

By Marion Botsford Fraser

Toronto freelance writer and broadcaster Marion Botsford Fraser spent three years criss-crossing the country exploring the often misrepresented lives of today’s single women. The result is Solitaire, a book that offers some of the most ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Navigating a New World: Canada’s Global Future

By Lloyd Axworthy

Each passing month brings a more urgent need for the world to puzzle out the future of its beleaguered multilateral institutions. So it’s tempting to pick up a book by Lloyd Axworthy, Canada’s foreign affairs ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Very Lonely Planet: Love, Sex, and the Single Guy

By Ryan Bigge

Not having been a single guy for over a dozen years, I read Ryan Bigge’s A Very Lonely Planet with considerable interest. By the time I was finished, I was almost overcome with a desire ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change

By Irshad Manji

In The Trouble with Islam, broadcaster and commentator Irshad Manji calls for a revival of ijtihad, the Koran’s tradition of independent thinking. Manji, a Muslim of Indian origin who immigrated to Canada from Uganda in ... Read More »

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

Secrets of Weather and Hope

By Sue Sinclair

Secrets of Weather and Hope, the first collection of poems by Sue Sinclair, is a mature, cohesive text filled with light, water, clouds, and bone. Its insistent probing into commonplace phenomenon reads more like an ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry