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Kilt

There are figurative and literal deserts in this play: the real desert is Tobruk, a port on the Mediterranean Coast, while the emotional deserts exist in the mind of Tom Robertson, a young exotic dancer ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Coronation Voyage

By Michel Marc Bouchard,Linda Gaboriau, trans.

It has taken almost five years for Michel Marc Bouchard’s 1995 play, Le Voyage du couronnement, to reach English language audiences as The Coronation Voyage. But the wait has been worthwhile. This play is Bouchard’s ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Invisible to Predators

By R.M. Vaughan

A candid celebration of homosexual love is the predominant theme of Toronto-based poet R.M. Vaughan’s latest collection.Vaughan delves into all aspects of romantic and physical love, from awkward courtship rituals to carnal pleasures. There is ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

News & Smoke

By Sharon Thesen

Asking a poet to explain his or her work may result in inscrutable mumbling, a beery confession, or stony silence. And then there’s Sharon Thesen, whose introduction to News & Smoke is one of the ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Mining for Sun

By John Reibetanz

Some volumes of poetry offer bold innovation, while others do the work of careful consolidation. Toronto poet John Reibetanz’s fourth collection of poems, Mining for Sun, is a sterling example of the second kind of ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

National Post Smart Funds 2000: A Fund Family Approach to Mutual Funds

By Jonathan Chevreau and Stephen Kangas with Susan Heinrich

There is a deluge of mutual fund books available at the start of the 60-day season (which begins Jan. 1) when most taxpayers begin planning their Registered Retirement Savings Plan investments. Mutual funds are a ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Best of the Best 2000: Mutual Funds and Blue Chip Stocks for Canadians

By Wilfred Vos and Bruce McDougall

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies

By Dominick LaCapra

Dominick LaCapra’s collection of essays about history and reading is based on a series of popular lectures that he recently gave at the University of British Columbia. The book’s cover is appropriately adorned with Vermeer’s ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

A Darkness That Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century

By Frederick Asals and Paul Tiessen, eds.

Schools of criticism create their own canons, elevating certain texts, discarding others. Yet some works – Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is one of them – lend themselves readily to all critical approaches. Similarly, Lowry ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

December 6: From the Montreal Massacre to Gun Control

By Heidi Rathjen and Charles Montpetit

Dec. 6, 1999, marked the 10-year anniversary of the shooting deaths of 14 women at the Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique. A sad anniversary indeed, and the event recently received a long overdue monument, one ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Quill and Quire

Kilt

The Coronation Voyage

Invisible to Predators

News & Smoke

Mining for Sun

National Post Smart Funds 2000: A Fund Family Approach to Mutual Funds

The Best of the Best 2000: Mutual Funds and Blue Chip Stocks for Canadians

History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies

A Darkness That Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century

December 6: From the Montreal Massacre to Gun Control

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