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Adultery

This novel could be charged with false advertising. The one-word title screams sex, and the cover art of a dark-haired beauty in a car, her head thrown back in passionate abandonment, redefines steamy. “That’s a ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

With English Subtitles

By Carmine Starnino

The poems in Carmine Starnino’s third collection are bold and original, breathing fresh perspective into familiar subjects. Starnino crafts poems that not only push the form’s envelope but stuffs that envelope with imaginative ideas.Starnino’s language ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Hello, I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity

By Hal Niedzviecki

Looking around North America these days, it’s hard not to conclude that much of what was revered as independent culture is suffering from a major identity crisis. Publications that once thrived on “alternative” issues, for ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Sea of Dreams: Racing Alone Around the World in a Small Boa

By Adam Mayers

It is a brave author who plunges into literary journalism to pen a book about extreme events or sports. No matter how interesting the subject being covered, the author will be judged against the pantheon ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Night Justice: The True Story of the Black Donnellys

By Peter Edwards

In the preface to Night Justice, Peter Edwards admits that although he grew up in “Donnelly country” in London, Ontario, all he knew about the notorious Irish-Canadian family was that they had been murdered by ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Great Big Book of Guys: Alphabetical Encounters with Men

By Erika Ritter

The central conceit of The Great Big Book of Guys is simple. In chapters with such titles as “Amigos,” “Bad Boys,” and “Codgers,” noted playwright and CBC broadcaster Erika Ritter uses each letter of the ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: The Story of Canada’s Secret War

By Carol Off

In one day in September 1993, in the process of aggressively shoring up the crumbling UN peacekeeping mission in Croatia, Canadian soldiers killed as many as 27 Croat soldiers in a series of firefights. Letting ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: History

Walk To New York: A Journey Out of the Wilds of Canada

By Charles Wilkins

"Because I felt like it” – that’s the reason journalist Charles Wilkins most often gave for deciding to walk from Thunder Bay in northern Ontario to New York City. But since the walk was preceded ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation

By Chris Turner

Anyone who’s ever watched an episode of The Simpsons knows that the long-running cartoon is topical, wickedly satirical, subversive, laugh-out-loud hilarious, and has oodles of street cred among disaffected youth who came of age in ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982-2004

By Margaret Atwood

For Moving Targets, her second collection of reviews, journalism, and occasional pieces, Margaret Atwood has elected to follow a strictly chronological organizing format. While this may seem simplistic at first glance, ultimately this approach unifies ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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