Water Studies: New Voices in Maritime Fiction

This collection presents short stories by 16 writers, mostly young and emerging, who call Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, or Prince Edward Island home. Ian Colford, who compiled and edited Water Studies, also edits Pottersfield Portfolio, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Love Ruins Everything

By Karen X. Tulchinsky

Nomi Rabinovitch is heartbroken and furious when her lover Sapphire leaves her for a man. She storms out of their shared apartment and after a moment of lost puppy dismay in the gay heart of ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Night Season

By Paul Bowdring

The Night Season is about the wanderings, literal and figurative, of a fifty-something, newly single, out-of-work academic in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Paul Bowdring’s second novel is a melancholy story that winds its way through Joycean-like ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The County of Birches

By Judith Kalman

Judith Kalman’s The County of Birches is a collection of 14 linked stories that attempts to transform history into fiction, to make biography into art.The names are different, but the characters are those found in ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Man from the Creeks

By Robert Kroetsch

Gold makes men dizzy, it stirs crazy dreams, and then come the hasty books explaining why it never was and how everybody should have seen through it from the start. That, anyway, is the Bre-X ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wild Garden: Art, Education, and the Culture of Resistance

By Dian Marino, Ferne Cristall, et al., illus.

In the contemporary art world Dian Marino is not a name that stands out. In the world of art education, however, she is a maverick for turning passivity into resistance and building verbal expression into ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Recipes of Champions

By Martin Glynn et al.

Scandalous politics and cheating aside, at its very purest, the modern Olympic spirit reaches lofty heights of idealism. As track coach Andy Higgins writes in his introduction to The Recipes of Champions, “every single one ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Electric Language

By Eric McLuhan

In Electric Language Eric McLuhan takes as a starting point his father’s premise that the monopoly print has held as the main mode of communication since the 15th century is fading and, in its place, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Runaways

By Kristin Butcher

This is a nice story about running away and homelessness – that’s right – nice. Everyone we meet in Kristin Butcher’s entertaining first novel is nice. Our 12-year-old hero, Nick, is personable and sweet. His ... Read More »

March 2, 2004

Canadian Nuclear Weapons: The Untold Story of Canada’s Cold War Arsenal

By John Clearwater

John Clearwater, a military-strategic analyst with the Department of National Defence, creates “an operational-technical history” in Canadian Nuclear Weapons, reconstructing the story of those weapons in Canada between 1963 and 1984.Nuclear weapons on Canadian soil ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: History

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Water Studies: New Voices in Maritime Fiction

Love Ruins Everything

The Night Season

The County of Birches

The Man from the Creeks

Wild Garden: Art, Education, and the Culture of Resistance

The Recipes of Champions

Electric Language

The Runaways

Canadian Nuclear Weapons: The Untold Story of Canada’s Cold War Arsenal

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