Ruler of the Courtyard

By Rukshana Khan, R. Gregory Christie, illus.

In Rukshana Khan’s new picture book, which is set in rural Pakistan, a little girl named Saba vies for control of the courtyard with chickens who scare her with their “bony beaks, razor claws, . ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

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

Requests and Dedications

By Elise Levine

Elise Levine must really hate mothers. Her first novel, Requests and Dedications, contains at my count six maternal figures who could give Medea a run for her money. And it doesn’t matter if you kill ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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

The Canoe: A Living Tradition

By John Jennings

History is often told as a chess game or battle of wills between great leaders, but as intellectuals such as Marshall McLuhan and Ursula Franklin have demonstrated, societies are more likely to be transformed by ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Place

By Geoffrey James

Toronto photographer Geoffrey James recently won the Roloff Beny Award – and a cool $30,000 – for Paris, his portrait of the changing face of the City of Lights. In Place, James explores the humbler, ... Read More »

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

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

City’s Great Spaces

By John Sewell

In the mid-1990s, former Toronto mayor and left-wing political columnist John Sewell conducted an indefatigable (but ultimately unsuccessful) campaign against the amalgamation of the city’s municipal governments. He peppered his criticism of the province’s proposal ... Read More »

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

Lures

By Sue Goyette

It was the great folk scare of the early 1970s: the cultural interlude between the Rolling Stones and the Clash characterized by that banal splice, the Sensitive Singer/Songwriter. They could sing (enviro-elf John Denver) or ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Astral Projection

By Edward O’Connor

Poignancy alert! Astral Projection is a novel about an adolescent boy’s coming of age in the early 1960s. The fiction field is already overcrowded with finely crafted quasi-memoirs of confused boys in confused times, and ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Ruler of the Courtyard

Chaos Mission

Requests and Dedications

A Good Enough Life: The Dying Speak

The Canoe: A Living Tradition

Place

The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life

City’s Great Spaces

Lures

Astral Projection

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