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Dark Age Ahead: Caution

Some six centuries before the Christian era began, the prophet Jeremiah lamented: “How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people.” That agile-minded social observer, Jane Jacobs, has written a jeremiad of sorts, ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Last Honest Man, Mordecai Richler: An Oral Biography

By Michael Posner

Mordecai Richler would have hated the idea of being the subject of a hagiography. Everything his writing represented is antithetical to a family-sanctioned, cultural industry-approved biography. Besides, Richler believed that there was something oddly emboldening ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Best Thing For You

By Annabel Lyon

Annabel Lyon is a sharp, funny, and subversive writer who knows how to keep her readers off-balance. Reviews of her first short-story collection, Oxygen, were ecstatic, and the trio of long stories that comprise The ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Address Book

By Steven Heighton

The poems in Steven Heighton’s fourth collection cover subjects from mixed tapes to dreamy landscapes, but all are painted with introspection, and all worthy of slow digestion. The Address Book is a portrait of an ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Chee Chee: A Study of Aboriginal Suicide

By Alvin Evans

Ojibwe-Algonquin artist Benjamin Chee Chee committed suicide in 1977, just as he was about to achieve international stardom. Author Alvin Evans, a psychotherapist and an expert in suicide, believes that Chee Chee’s death was a ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

By Eva-Marie Kroller, ed.

The idea that anything approaching an authoritative analysis of Canadian fiction, or nature-writing, or aboriginal writing, can be undertaken in essays of 20 pages or so is almost laughable. But that’s the challenge faced by ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Damaged Angels: A Mother Discovers the Invisible Cost of Alcohol in Pregnancy

By Bonnie Buxton

It wasn’t until her troubled adopted daughter was in her teens that Bonnie Buxton even heard the term Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Damaged Angels outlines, with brutal honesty, the cost of FASD, the difficult ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Fresh at Home: Everyday Vegetarian Cooking

By Ruth Tal Brown and Jennifer Houston

The bill of fare at Fresh, a chain of three popular vegan juice bar/restaurants in Toronto, is the basis of this cookbook, the second for the authors, who co-own the chain. The recipes appear in ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Who Killed the Canadian Military?

By J.L. Granatstein

After 50 years of political mismanagement, declining budgets, over-commitment, and broken promises, the Canadian Armed Forces will soon need to cease all large-scale operations for at least two years. Regardless of whatever short-term cash injections ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage

By Katherine Govier, ed.

I have always wanted to open a review with a quote from the prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; now I finally have my chance. Ahem: spring is the season “whan longen folk to goon on ... Read More »