Look for Me

This is the sophomore installment in Edeet Ravel’s Tel Aviv trilogy, themed around life in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her brilliant first novel in the series, Ten Thousand Lovers, published in 2003, met with terrific international ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Brahma’s Dream

By Shree Ghatage

On the eve of independence in the late 1940s, India was swept by events of epic political and cultural significance: the end of British rule, the assassination of Gandhi, the collision of modernism with age-old ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Making Light of Tragedy

By Jessica Grant

The Journey Prize-winning story “My Husband’s Jump,” centering on a ski-jumper who never lands, proves a pace-setting opening to this first collection by Jessica Grant. Like most of these brisk 23 tales, the story’s characters ... Read More »

July 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Hatbox Letters

By Beth Powning

The literary device of letters or diaries speaking across the years to someone from a later time is as old and hoary as fiction itself. To Beth Powning’s considerable credit, The Hatbox Letters makes the ... Read More »

July 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Champlain

By Christopher Moore, Francis Back, illus.

The story of Samuel de Champlain has enough aspects of the hero epic to make one wonder why we Canadians (characteristically) make so little fuss about him. Like most heroes, Champlain was raised in obscurity, ... Read More »

June 30, 2004

A Dune Adrift: The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island

By Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle

There are many books written about the world’s exotic places and peoples. Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, won’t fit most people’s definition of exotic – a crescent-shaped chunk of land in the ... Read More »

June 28, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Prisoners of the North

By Pierre Berton

Pierre Berton’s 50th book continues his mission to popularize Canadian history. Like many of the other 49 books, Prisoners of the North is rooted in a northern theme and strong storytelling. The short biographies here ... Read More »

June 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Solid Form of Language: An Essay on Writing and Meaning

By Robert Bringhurst

“Years ago, in a Bosnian town, a woman tried repeatedly to speak to me, though the words she knew and trusted were words I did not understand,” recalls the writer Robert Bringhurst. “At length, in ... Read More »

June 15, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Speaking Out: Ideas That Work for Canadians

By Jack Layton

Since becoming leader of the federal NDP last year, Jack Layton has done a skillful job of steering the party to the centre. Not surprisingly, that’s where his new campaign book is aimed. The theme ... Read More »

June 7, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bedside Manners: Sex Etiquette Made Easy

By Josey Vogels

Vanilla, kink, gay, straight – if it’s out there Josey Vogels, author and nationally syndicated sex columnist, has written about it. For her fifth and latest book, Bedside Manners, Vogels shows why she is Canada’s ... Read More »

May 31, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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