When She Was Bad: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence

B-film purists will be pleased to note that a literary equivalent of Chained Heat (the women- in-prison series) is being featured in bookstores everywhere. The refrain of these filmic mayhem queens – so young, so ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Power in the Blood: Land, Memory,and a Southern Family

By John Bentley Mays

John Bentley Mays was born into one of the American South’s oldest families – that is who he is. Since 1980, he has been The Globe and Mail’s art critic – that is what he ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Zero Tollerance

By Toller Cranston with Martha Lowder Kimball

Just as Wayne Gretzky and Tiger Woods are familiar names to even those who disdain hockey and golf, Toller Cranston became well-known among people who don’t know a Lutz from a Salchow. The six-time Canadian ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Life of Margaret Laurence

By James King

After years of what you might call biographical exile, James King has come home. It’s about time. That’s not meant to read like a pointedly parochial plaint; it’s not to suggest that some federal policing ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood

By Eileen Whitfield

Long before expatriate hosers Jim Carrey and William Shatner uttered their immortal lines, “Alrighty then,” and, “Beam me up, Scotty,” Toronto-born actress Mary Pickford started our national entertainment industry tradition of southward migration. Like dozens ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Quick Escapes in the Pacific Northwest, 3rd Ed.

By Marilyn McFarlane

When I finally escaped Toronto almost 10 years ago, it was early September and the city was less hot, less humid, and more exuberantly natural than usual. Heading southwest, picking up the Lewis & Clark ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Wilderness Canada

By Karl Teuschl & Wolfgang Weber

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Best Places to Kiss in the Northwest: A Romantic Travel Guide

By Stephanie Bell, Kristin Folsom, Elizabeth Janda & Laura Kraemer

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Boardwalk

By Joseph Kertes

Joseph Kertes’ second novel for adults is an interesting hybrid: part road novel, part unabashed romance, mediated by its protagonists being typical Canadians counterpointed against a sleazy U.S. setting. Clyde and Eddie are brothers from ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Online Epicure: Finding Out Everything You Want to Know About Good Cooking on the Internet

By Neil J. Salkind

The Internet is fast becoming the global library: an information resource unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Don’t know which refrigerator to buy? How to get in touch with childhood friends? Which store might sell ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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