Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

It would be difficult to write a dull book about Doctors Without Borders, the renowned international medical relief organization that won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Peace. Hope in Hell doesn’t disappoint, providing many a ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

★ A Stain upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming

By Stephen Hume et al

Purchasing a steady supply of fresh and canned fish is a privilege to which most inland Canadians have never given a second thought. They take it for granted at their peril, as this startling new ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ This Terrible Business Has Been Very Good to Me

By Norman Jewison

Anyone who has enjoyed watching movies during the last 40-plus years should read this book. It’s that simple. In This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me, veteran Canadian director Norman Jewison details his life ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Honour Thy Mother

By T.C. Badcock

On paper the plot of Honour Thy Mother, by Newfoundland writer T.C. Badcock, looks good. A young woman arrives in an outport one fall day. She turns out to be pregnant and dies in childbirth, ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Foozlers

By Tom Osborne

Tom Osborne provides a brief glossary at the end of his first novel, Foozlers. One might expect to find the meaning of foozler here, but it’s not necessary. Like the acrobatic adjectives that Tom Wolfe ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Purest of Human Pleasures

By Kenneth Radu

Kenneth Radu’s fourth novel borrows its title from a well-known quote by Francis Bacon praising the pastime of gardening. The intended irony is that though this novel is full of gardens, no one actually gets ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Let’s Not Let a Little Thing Like the End of the World Come Between U

By James Marshall

James Marshall’s book of short stories is sharp and edgy, like the broken glass that peppers its pages. The Saskatchewan writer’s debut collection features eight stories that capture fragments of their protagonists’ lives. These fragments ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Girl Like Sugar

By Emily Pohl-Weary

Though having sex with ghosts may be a little out of the ordinary, 24-year-old Sugar Jones is just your average slacker girl travelling through the no man’s land of the mid-twenties breakdown. Haunted by the ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Most Wanted

By Vivette J. Kady

A certain playfulness characterizes much of the new generation of Canadian short fiction, and Vivette Kady’s debut is no exception. These stories progress swiftly, in clipped passages linked by white space, so that one can ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Mapmaker’s Opera

By Béa Gonzalez

Diego Clemente, bastard son of a Spanish don, journeys across the globe in 1909, on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, to join American conservationist and naturalist Edward Nelson, who is documenting the birds of ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

★ A Stain upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming

★ This Terrible Business Has Been Very Good to Me

Honour Thy Mother

Foozlers

The Purest of Human Pleasures

Let’s Not Let a Little Thing Like the End of the World Come Between U

A Girl Like Sugar

Most Wanted

The Mapmaker’s Opera

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