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Bastardi Puri

The poems in Walid Bitar’s third collection are, as the book’s paradoxical title suggests, pure bastards. The poetics of Bitar, a Lebanese-born Canadian, are characterized by typically postmodern concerns: fractured subjectivity; the malleability of language ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Playing with Matches: Misadventures in Dating

By Amy Cameron

Billed as a companion book for women “who have more experience with recipes for disaster than recipes for romance,” Amy Cameron’s Playing with Matches attempts to capitalize on the impulse to anecdotalize the infamous (but ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Reference

The Enamoured Knight

By Douglas Glover

Douglas Glover’s extended meditation on Don Quixote, The Enamoured Knight, is simply packed to the brim with marvellous stuff. Not only does he lovingly and with great thoughtfulness delve into the richness of Cervantes’ masterwork, ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution

By Judy Rebick

At a time when it seems the women’s movement in Canada has all but evaporated, along comes a book to remind us what great strides this country’s feminists achieved in the latter part of the ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies

Bittergirl: Getting Over Getting Dumped

By Annabel Griffiths, Alison Lawrence, and Mary Francis Moore

It’s supposed to be a romantic evening. You buy wine. You light a few candles. You even shave your legs. Unfortunately your husband/boyfriend/boytoy has other ideas. In between arugula and apple pie, he dumps you ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Reference

★ I am a red dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter

By Anna Camilleri

Anna Camilleri is more than a red dress. The Toronto native is a writer, spoken-word artist, anthologist, and curator who has performed across Canada and the U.S. Camilleri’s I am a red dress is a ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World’s Food Crises

By Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon, eds.

Feeding the Future, the second collection of thematically linked essays edited by Investeco Capital president Andrew Heintzman and CBC personality and writer Evan Solomon (the two were also co-founders of Shift magazine), is subtitled From ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Canadians in the Civil War

By Claire Hoy

The role of Canada and Canadians in the American Civil War has long deserved a higher profile in the historical literature. Veteran journalist and author Claire Hoy’s new book is an attempt to rectify that.Between ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: History

Public Life, Private Tragedy

By Steve Paikin

John P. Robarts: Ontario premier from 1961-1971, dedicated modernizer of the province’s schools and universities, creator of its community college system. The University of Toronto’s Robarts Library – one of the most daunting such edifices ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Rocco Perri: The Story of Canada’s Most Notorious Bootlegger

By Antonio Nicaso

Lovers of the true-crime genre will appreciate this new biography of one of Canada’s most feared gangsters for two reasons. The first is that the book’s author, Antonio Nicaso, is widely regarded as Canada’s leading ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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