The Electrical Field

Asako Saito stands at her living-room window looking across a field of electrical towers and into the undraped front window of an opposing house. Upstairs, her invalid father moans and cries, but never moves. Her ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

One Hand Clapping

By Lise Leroux

Item: The Times of London, March 1998Reviewer Jane Shilling inspects two novels, Leaving Earth by the Toronto writer Helen Humphreys and One Hand Clapping by the Montreal-born Lise Leroux. They’re both first forays and they ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Muskoka II

By Judy Ross, with photos by John de Visser

Sometimes old adages are wrong and you can go back, and it isn’t so very different, and you are happy. Photographer John de Visser and writer Judy Ross published their successful Muskoka in 1989, capturing ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art

By Steven C. Brown, with photos Paul Macapia

Northwest Coast art, the product of many generations, began as a two-dimensional style with minimal incised separations and carved-out areas. Yet, amazing objects were produced over 1,000 years ago, ranging from potlatch grease dishes, headdresses, ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Lesbianism Made Easy

By Helen Eisenbach

“The Love Boat… life’s sweetest reward… it’s an open smile on a friendly shore… adventure… romance… welcome aboard…” Yeah, right pal. No. Seriously. The Love Boat, Aaron Spelling’s long-running television romantic comedy set aboard a ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Being Single in a Couples’ World

By Xavier Amador, PhD, Judith Kiersku, PhD

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Dumped!

By Sally Warren with Andrea Thompson

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Connected Intelligence: The Arrival of the Web Society

By Derrick de Kerckhove

Derrick de Kerckhove’s ambitious new book of techno-theory, Connected Intelligence, follows up on his preceding work, The Skin of Culture, published only two years ago. It seems much has changed in that time, or at ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Microsoft Office 97 Professional

By Joe Kraynak and Sherry Kinkoph

I doubt many people saw it coming, but it’s happened; computers have shed their stodgy images and become the sexy party accessories of the 1990s. People with better bodies than you have taken to swapping ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment