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Iced: Crystal Meth – The Biography of North America’s Deadliest New Plague

Toward the end of Iced, journalist and author Jerry Langton writes that the drug methamphetamine, aka “meth,” has divided the North American media into two camps: “Those who believe meth is bad, dangerous and rapidly ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Jesus of Hollywood

By Adele Reinhartz

It’s tempting to praise University of Ottawa professor Adele Reinhartz’s Jesus of Hollywood, an evenhanded and thorough survey of representations of Jesus in popular cinema, simply for all the ways it doesn’t go wrong. In ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction

By Herb Wyile

In Speaking in the Past Tense, Herb Wyile interviews 11 Canadian novelists about writing historical fiction. Several recurring topics weave through the informal, conversational interviews, but the predominating theme is that of the tension between ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Free Speech in Fearful Times: After 9/11 in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Europe

By James Turk and Allan Manson, eds.

Free Speech in Fearful Times is an accessible, must-read anthology for those concerned about the current state of civil liberties in the West. Despite the seemingly limited focus of its subtitle, the collection is in ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush

By Barry M. Lando

In the final days of 1920, after a series of bloody Arab uprisings against the British occupiers of Mesopotamia (soon to be renamed Iraq), a frustrated Winston Churchill, then secretary of state for the colonies, ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Yesno

By Dennis Lee

UN, Dennis Lee’s previous collection of poetry for adults, represented a significant stylistic departure not only for Lee but for English Canadian poetry in general. Unlike the long, often prosy lines of Civil Elegies, a ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

The Breakdown So Far

By M.A.C. Farrant

This collection of (very) short stories and literary snapshots is billed as “an unsparing critique” of North American mall culture. It is unsparing. It’s also sometimes witty and clever. Unfortunately, it’s often so busy sneering ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Years of Fire: Charles the Bold, Volume 2

By Yves Beauchemin

For better or worse, the novels of Montreal writer Yves Beauchemin don’t tax his readers’ intellects unduly. The first volume of his Charles the Bold trilogy was so concerned with his hero’s childhood that it ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Out of Character

By Vanessa Craft

Style and music journalist Vanessa Craft cuts her creative teeth with a debut novel about British gentlemen’s clubs. She’s definitely on to something with heroine Emma Gordon, a listless young writer for a British tabloid ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Halifax Connection

By Marie Jakober

Erryn Shaw is an English aristocrat who has fled to Halifax to avoid a dark past. Sylvie Bowen is a working-class girl who has escaped the deadly environment of Lancashire’s cotton mills. Inevitably, they meet, ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Iced: Crystal Meth – The Biography of North America’s Deadliest New Plague

Jesus of Hollywood

Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction

Free Speech in Fearful Times: After 9/11 in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Europe

Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush

Yesno

The Breakdown So Far

The Years of Fire: Charles the Bold, Volume 2

Out of Character

The Halifax Connection

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