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The Insolent Boy

After earning a nasty reputation in his claustrophobic Nova Scotia home town, young Selwyn Davies runs off, like many a wandering, forever-unsatisfied protagonist before him, to earn a similar reputation around the world. The pace ... 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

Vinyl Cafe Diaries

By Stuart McLean

The lives and misadventures of Toronto record-store owner Dave, his wife Morley, and their children Stephanie and Sam are a Canadian institution both on the airwaves and in print. McLean’s style is characterized by a ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil

By Andrew Nikiforuk

Strong personalities evoke strong reactions. Alberta farmer Wiebo Ludwig has been portrayed as a tireless campaigner against the depredations of big oil and a homicidal terrorist, as a religious patriarch who only wants to protect ... Read More »

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

The Sink: Money Laundering, Organized Crime and Canada’s Caribbean

By Jeffrey Robinson

Jeffrey Robinson’s The Sink is a follow-up to his 1996 bestseller The Laundrymen, which looked at the bankers, accountants, and other seemingly upstanding functionaries who aid and abet a multi-trillion-dollar dirty economy that ranks second ... Read More »

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

The Joy of Not Working, 3rd Ed.

By Ernie J. Zelinsky

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

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Quill and Quire

The Insolent Boy

★ 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

Vinyl Cafe Diaries

Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil

The Sink: Money Laundering, Organized Crime and Canada’s Caribbean

The Joy of Not Working, 3rd Ed.

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