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Bre-X: Gold Today, Gone Tomorrow

In retrospect, the collapse of the Bre-X Minerals hoax was obvious, say Vivian Danielson, editor of The Northern Miner, and James Whyte, a reporter with an academic background in geology and geochemistry on Danielson’s staff. ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Reluctant Pornographer

By Bruce La Bruce

The Reluctant Pornographer is a star’s memoirs so there is not much time for self-analysis between descriptions of getting it on for the camera and facing a film festival question and answer session. Nonetheless, Toronto ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Madonna: Bawdy & Soul

By Karlene Faith

Karlene Faith has added her name to the list of authors willing to try to figure out why Madonna – the singer, not the religious icon – alternately pleases and pisses off so many people. ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Our Hearts Went Boom: The Beatles’ Invasion of Canada

By Brian Kendall

For those Beatlemaniacs like me who actually saw The Beatles in concert in Canada in 1964, ’65, or ’66, this book will bring back delightful memories. For those unfortunate others, Our Hearts Went Boom will ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Scorned & Beloved: Dead of Winter Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics

By Bill Richardson

The title of Bill Richardson’s new book is taken from a painting by Emily Carr, but it’s the subtitle, Dead of Winter Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics, that’s particularly revealing. Thanatos and campy Eros are the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Storm Clouds Over Party Shoes: Etiquette Problems for the Ill-bred Woman

By Sheila Norgate

According to pre- and post-war North American etiquette, women posed such a danger to themselves and society that if they did not adhere to strict rules of conduct something truly dreadful would happen. After all, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Disbeliever’s Dictionary: A Gleefully Disrespectful Lexicon of Canada Today

By Brian Fawcett

MemoTo: Commander Adanac, aboard the Cheem Ekal 2 From: Cpt. Iszusz Rentrag, Canada, Earth First off, you’d be amused. There are myriad streets and travel agencies here named after you. Well, not named after you ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Canadian 100: The 100 Most Influential Canadians of the 20th Century

By H. Graham Rawlinson & J.L. Granatstein

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women

By Denise Chong, ed.

Non-fiction writer and now editor Denise Chong, likes short stories because: (a) she can “hold completely within [her] imagination from the first word to the last the characters around whom events swirl,” and (b) she ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

Awake When All the World Is Asleep

By Shree Ghatage

The title story in Shree Ghatage’s first collection, Awake When All the World Is Asleep, comes from a conversation between two servants in a middle-class Bombay apartment building. When one character complains about being sent ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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