Arrow Through the Heart: The Life and Times of Crawford Gordon and the Avro Arrow

In this engaging and revealing biography of Crawford Gordon, the charismatic and mercurial dynamo at the helm of the Avro Arrow project in the 1950s, Greig Stewart chronicles the life and demise of the infamous ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

All in the Family: A Cultural History of Family Life

By Suanne Kelman

“Family life is imperfect and difficult everywhere, all the time,” according to author Suanne Kelman. How much more humanely – and helpfully – government programs might operate if politicians trumpeting the demise of the Canadian ... Read More »

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

★ Paradise, Piece by Piece

By Molly Peacock

It’s a pleasure to share one’s memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe – though we didn’t know it at the time. We know it now. Because it’s ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Smell It

By Hal Niedzviecki

I looked forward to Smell It, to a collection of short, short stories by the editor of the Toronto ’zine Broken Pencil, because Niedzviecki’s nonfiction is usually contemporary and trenchant in equal measures. I prepared ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Use Once and Destroy

By John L’Ecuyer, Michael Cho, illus.

I admit it. I was once an addict. While growing up, I became hooked on junkie lit – Jim Carroll’s The Basketball Diaries and Junkie by William S. Burroughs – anything that involved needles entering ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Guilty

By Sky Gilbert

Guilty, the first novel from the Toronto playwright and performer Sky Gilbert, explores the fate of Jack, a man so convinced that the world’s troubles are his fault that he’s willing to take the blame ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Peripheries

By Helene Littman

Even a good friend does not want to hear about how bored and tired you are, or about the futility of your art in an artless world, or how unfulfilling all your relationships are. No ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Bombay Ice

By Leslie Forbes

Leslie Forbes, a Canadian-born writer, artist, and broadcaster with four travel books to her credit, has lived in London for the past 20 years, where she has worked for the BBC on such programs as ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Second Fiddle

By Yves Beauchemin, David Homel, trans.

It’s always wise, reading Yves Beauchemin, the best-selling Québécois author, to keep your eye on the big picture. In perhaps his best known novel, The Alley Cat, Beauchemin demonstrated an affinity for the Dickensian saga, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Widows

By Suzette Mayr

There’s a lot of sex in The Widows by Suzette Mayr, a comic novel about three old women: straight sex, lesbian sex, remembered sex, substitute sex – and symbolic sex in the form of a ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Arrow Through the Heart: The Life and Times of Crawford Gordon and the Avro Arrow

All in the Family: A Cultural History of Family Life

★ Paradise, Piece by Piece

Smell It

Use Once and Destroy

Guilty

Peripheries

Bombay Ice

Second Fiddle

The Widows

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