Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World’s Last Unchallenged River

Colin Angus is, at the age of 32, a seasoned explorer and author with a habit of traversing some of the world’s most dangerous waterways. Angus’s second book, Lost in Mongolia, charts a hazardous 5,500-kilometre ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Searching for Michael Jackson’s Nose, and Other Preoccupations of Our Celebrity-mad Culture

By Scott Feschuk

Scott Feschuk can best be described as a Canadian enthusiast of American television. He has been amusing readers of the National Post with his wry column devoted to pop culture musings. Searching for Michael Jackson’s ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Sitting Practice

By Caroline Adderson

The opening scene of Caroline Adderson’s Sitting Practice – with a bridegroom striding joyously through a field of assembling wedding guests as the wedding meats are laid on the fire – is pure 21st-century West ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West

By D’Arcy Jenish

Popular biographers often work hard to find a new and exciting perspective on their subject, an activity that sometimes moves the focus of the book from the subject to the author. Fortunately, in Epic Wanderer, ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Charlie Johnson in the Flames

By Michael Ignatieff

To be a foreign correspondent is to lead a double life. The work, which tends to take place in war-torn locales amidst violence and mayhem, demands an unnatural level of detachment and dispassion about human ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Canada: A Portrait in Letters, 1800-2000

By Charlotte Gray

I can imagine Charlotte Gray’s fascinating Canada: A Portrait in Letters, 1800-2000 sitting on a small table next to the toilet in a second floor bathroom. A brass floor lamp is arranged so its circle ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: History

Let Them Eat Prozac

By David Healy

Pharmaceutical companies are among the most powerful corporations in the world. So it’s unusual to hear a critical voice coming from within the medical community. David Healy, a highly regarded university professor and psychiatrist, became ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Hybrids

By Robert J. Sawyer

With Hybrids, Robert J. Sawyer draws to a close the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, a trio of books that will likely be looked upon as a career highlight for the Toronto science fiction writer.As Hybrids opens, ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Leave Me by Dying

By Rosemary Aubert

Prequels – the earlier adventures of a series character – are generally written after the author has exhausted the possibilities of the series or the age or personal circumstances of the featured character precludes further ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Spree: A Cultural History of Shopping

By Pamela Klaffke

We’re s-h-o-p-p-i-n-g‚” sang the Pet Shop Boys in the greed-is-good 1980s, when the economy exploded and we gulped down its products faster than Pac Man gobblers. And as we shopped – in those first, delirious ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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