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Storied Streets: Montreal in the Literary Imagination

By Bryan Demchinsky and Elaine Kalman Naves

In April, at Montreal’s second annual Blue Metropolis literary festival, writers from Scotland, Trinidad, and Toronto tossed around variations on a theme: can one live imaginatively in one’s homeplace before it has been represented in ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Tom Thomson’s Shack

By Harold Rhenisch

Harold Rhenisch’s Tom Thomson’s Shack is filled with arresting images. A poet with 11 previous books to his credit – including the recent novel Carnival – Rhenisch has turned his hand this time to short ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Memory of Elsewhere

By Rona Murray

Six and a half years ago a man named Mr. Peacock blacked out at the wheel of his car and smashed into Rona Murray, a Vancouver Island poet and teacher, while she was driving to ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Genius of Place: Writing About British Columbia

By David Stouck and Myler Wilkinson, eds.

Pack 200 years into 400 pages and much will be missed. David Stouck and Myler Wilkinson have strung together a glut of non-fiction writers – explorers, artists, ecologists – to reveal a big truth about ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)

By Veronica Strong-Boag and Carole Gerson

Pauline Johnson, of both Mohawk and Euro-Canadian ancestry, was a musical performer, champion of first nations’ rights, and an independent, self-supporting woman as well as a writer. For decades after her death in 1913, she ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Breaking Trail

By Len Marchand with Matt Hughes

Len Marchand has struggled for native rights throughout his political career. Breaking Trail chronicles his 33 years in politics; he started in 1965, as a 31-year-old minister’s assistant in the Liberal party, and finished in ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Comfort Me with Apples: Considering the Pleasures of the Table

By Joe Fiorito

Anyone who hunts for excellent prose in the current thicket of book-product overproduction should delight that Joe Fiorito’s collection of columns on food, Comfort Me with Apples, which was originally published in 1994, has been ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Sale of the Century: Russia’s Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism

By Chrystia Freeland

I was only in Russia once, Moscow mostly, and for just a week, which means I can’t claim to have any kind of a command of the place. This was in the summer of 1997, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Beast Within: Why Men Are Violent

By Neil Boyd

“You’ll notice what they have in common is between the legs. Is this why wars are fought?” This Margaret Atwood quotation is used by Neil Boyd, professor of criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

God and the Market: Steps Towards a Moral Economy

By Ted Reeve,ed.

Ever think that were it not for the widespread idolatry of this machine called the market, the world would be a better, safer place for all of us? This is what editor Ted Reeve purports ... Read More »

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

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