Intertwining: Artists, Landscape, Issues, Technology

Eco-art had meaning in the 1970s, and eco-artists were, for the most part, visual creators of the environmental movement. Much of the work that fell into the category was made on site – on beaches, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

My Recollection of Chicago and the Doctrine of Laissez Faire

By Stephen Leacock, Carl Spadoni, ed.

Aficionados of Stephen Leacock’s work will be interested in the recent discovery and subsequent publication of his 1903 doctoral dissertation in economics. In addition to being a valuable piece of scholarship in its own right, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wired for Sound: A Journey into Hearing

By Beverly Biderman

The deaf and the telephone – three short scenes:A group of little girls sit cross-legged on the floor. They’re playing “Broken Telephone.” The first girl whispers a sentence into the ear of a girl beside ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Nobody Said Not to Go: The Loves, Life, and Adventures of Emily Hahn

By Ken Cuthbertson

Emily Hahn (1905-1997) was a remarkable woman who was very ahead of her time. Known as “Mickey” to her friends, Hahn drove across the United States in the 1920s dressed as a boy; hiked across ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Living Beach

By Silver Donald Cameron

You can’t pin down a beach, Silver Donald Cameron warns: beaches have places to go, people to see, things to do, and we’re the least of their worries. Cameron’s fascination with beaches has already taken ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Elsewhere Community

By Hugh Kenner

Hugh Kenner, Professor of English at the University of Georgia, is considered one of the finest critics to come out of Canada. He has written more than 30 books encompassing the fields of literature, language, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Island of the Human Heart: Tales of a Traveller

By Laurie Gough

Island of the Human Heart, like most good contemporary travel writing, is a self-reflection told in the format of a narrative that describes the wanderer’s response to the genius loci with a keen eye for ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Borderlands: How We Talk About Canada

By W.H. New

Do Canadians think of themselves only in terms of northern limits, oceanic rims, and the 49th parallel? Do they see the Canada-U.S. border as simply a line to cross in order to enjoy a commerce ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: History

★ Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman

By Rudy Wiebe & Yvonne Johnson

Rudy Wiebe won the 1973 Governor General’s Award for Fiction for The Temptations of Big Bear, a book he wrote about Yvonne Johnson’s great-great-grandfather, the eponymous Plains Cree chief. Twenty-five years later, Wiebe and Johnson ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Cape Breton Road

By D.R. MacDonald

Eyestone, the debut collection of short fiction by D.R. MacDonald, was the sort of book to make readers hold their collective breath. Nearly flawless in its own right, its publication in 1988 – an occasion ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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