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Generation Deluxe: How the Super-Rich Spend Their Millions

As neat as it is to learn that pro basketball players, upon signing their first contracts, go to a particular Atlanta shoe boutique to be shod, or that Posh Spice and David Beckham pay handsomely ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Sexual Spectrum: Exploring Human Diversity

By Olive Skene Johnson

For those who continue to insist there are only two genders and one acceptable sexual orientation, this first book by retired Vancouver neuropsychologist Olive Skene Johnson compiles decades of scientific findings to the contrary. Study ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Raging Grannies: Wild Hats, Cheeky Songs, and Witty Actions for a Better World

By Carole Roy

Anyone who has attended a Canadian political demonstration over the past 15 years should be familiar with the outrageously attired, umbrella-wielding songsters known as the Raging Grannies. This international phenomenon – many of whose members ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Off Our Rockers and into Trouble: The Raging Grannies

By Alison Acker and Betty Brightwell

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an age of Terrorism

By Michael Ignatieff

Broadcaster, author, and biographer Michael Ignatieff dons yet another hat with his latest book: political theorist in the tradition of Isaiah Berlin, the Oxford professor whom Ignatieff profiled in a 1998 book. Ignatieff met with ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Third and Long

By Chris Fisher

The eight stories in Third and Long, Chris Fisher’s third collection of short fiction, share settings in small prairie towns and narratives based on the subject of sports. Fisher, who has lived in more than ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Streets of Winter

By Stephen Henighan

Author and notable critic Stephen Henighan has criticized CanLit for “failing to engage the urban present.” It is unclear, then, why Henighan has chosen to set his new novel amid an urban reality – Montreal ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Momentum of Red

By Monica Kidd

Fathers and daughters. Of all the permutations of family that novelists tend to fixate on, this is one of the least explored. Why that should be is unclear, since there is potentially just as much ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I know you are, but what am I?

By Heather Birrell

Toronto writer Heather Birrell’s first collection of short stories attempts to breathe new life into coming-of-age and character-in-the-midst-of-life-change tales. Unfortunately, it only half delivers on that promise.Where Birrell succeeds is in her ability to accurately ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning

By Catherine Mavrikakis, Nathalie Stephens, trans.

Hervé has never been a popular name in Quebec. Nevertheless, Montrealer Catherine Mavrikakis opens her short novel A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning by saying that all her friends are named Hervé and most are HIV-positive. ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Generation Deluxe: How the Super-Rich Spend Their Millions

The Sexual Spectrum: Exploring Human Diversity

The Raging Grannies: Wild Hats, Cheeky Songs, and Witty Actions for a Better World

Off Our Rockers and into Trouble: The Raging Grannies

The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an age of Terrorism

Third and Long

The Streets of Winter

The Momentum of Red

I know you are, but what am I?

A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning

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