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Under the Abdominal Wall

Childhood, in West Coast resident Sharon McCartney’s debut collection of poetry, is the memory of illness and death. Little prepares the reader for the narrator’s vitriolic images. Everything is underscored by the menace of cancer ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-canadian Poetry

By Andy Quan,Jim Wong-Chu, eds.

This timely anthology aims to show the fruitfulness, for poetry, of the cultural ambiguities summed up in the term “Chinese-Canadian.” In the editors’ hands this is an inclusive label, uniting third-generation Canadian writers such as ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

A Passion for Food: Conversations with Canadian Chefs

By Gerry Shikatani

To be articulate with food is a sapid and tactile art. To be articulate about food is something altogether different. A chef capable of sublime brilliance with a sauce can be illiterate. A brilliant writer ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

What Your Doctor Really Thinks

By Ian Blumer

A lively mixture of case histories, practical information, personal anecdotes, and trivia, Ian Blumer’s first book is ideal reading for doctor wannabes. The Ontario internist uses chatty medical lingo sophisticated enough to make patients feel ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Scientific Canadian

By Roy Mayer

The Scientific Canadian is a companion volume to Roy Mayer’s Inventing Canada, in which the science writer and inventor profiled Canadian inventors in industry. Mayer’s latest book looks at the scientific discoveries that have stemmed ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Nice Work: The Continuing Scandal of Canada’s Senate

By Claire Hoy

Claire Hoy is a muckraking right-wing Southam columnist. His target is a cheap and easy villain: the Canadian Senate. Not many Canadians, senators included, defend the current institution. Hoy’s style is engagingly full of opinions, ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Animal Dreaming

By Paul Morin

Ontario artist Paul Morin has won major awards for his children’s picture book illustrations, including the Governor General’s Award for his pictures for Tololwa Mollel’s Orphan Boy, and the IBBY International award. The illustrations for ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Losing the Dead

By Lisa Appignanesi

There is an intensely immediate quality to Lisa Appignanesi’s family memoir Losing the Dead. The story is told in the present tense with constant temporal shifts that transport the reader from wartime Poland, to 1950s ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women

By Nancy Wachowich,Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak and Sandra Pikujak Katsak

Saqiyuq is the Inuktitut word for a strong wind that suddenly shifts direction. Inuit life has also undergone a sudden shift in the last four decades, from nomadic subsistence hunting to permanent settlement in communities. ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Native Peoples

★ Too Close to the Falls

By Catherine Gildiner

There is only one problem with Catherine Gildiner’s memoir Too Close to the Falls: it is far too short, even at 350 pages.When Gildiner, a Toronto psychologist and Chatelaine columnist, was four years old and ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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