What She Can Remember

Singer-songwriter Donna Dunlop’s first novel, What She Can Remember reads more like a personal memoir than a work of fiction. Set in the mid- to late 1960s and written in both past and present tense, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Parable Beach

By Paddy McCallum

A recent series of television ads promoting B.C. tourism urged viewers to discover “Super. Natural.” Anyone wondering what the advertisers meant could do worse than turn to B.C. poet Paddy McCallum. The four sectionsof his ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Family Man

By Stephen Zeifman

Casey is a guy who seems to have it all: a successful Toronto architecture practice; a smart, lovely wife; a lively teenage daughter; and two fine sons. Why isn’t Casey happy? He’s not sure, but ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lunch with

By Jan Wong

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,” wrote Oscar Wilde. That’s a distinction Jan Wong seems to have difficulty making. Wong is the Globe and Mail writer ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Trudeau Albums

By Mordecai Richler

However earnest the essays in Trudeau Albums might be in their occasional criticism of the late Pierre Trudeau, nothing can shake the reverent, hagiographic tone of this boxed coffee-table accessory. Organized into six albums, each ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask

By Jim Munroe

In his first novel, 26-year-old Jim Munroe has created a genuinely hip, young, and urban tale. Forget about all the other fiction that poses as slick and cool, forget the stylish authors that promise to ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Whose National Security: Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies

By Gary Kinsman, Dieter K. Buse, Mercedes Steedman, eds.

Last May’s revelation that Ottawa’s Human Resources Department had a supercomputer with personal information on over 30 million Canadians proved scandalous, yet it was no aberration. The collection of information on Canadians is as common ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: History

A Personal Calligraphy

By Mary Pratt

Artists are not always content to let their art speak for them. Some, like Newfoundland painter Mary Pratt, choose to stack prose up against their paintings, providing another piece to the puzzle that is their ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Canada: A People’s History (Volume One)

By Don Gillmor and Pierre Turgeon

The English writer Saki quipped that the people of Crete have always made more history than they can consume locally. In Canada, there are those who’ll argue that we go the other way, and that ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

This Is Our Writing

By T.F. Rigelhof

In This is Our Writing, T.F. Rigelhof, a teacher at Montreal’s Dawson College, evaluates the achievements of Mordecai Richler, Leonard Cohen, Mavis Gallant, and other Canadian prose writers. Some of these pizzazzy essays previously appeared ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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Lunch with

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A Personal Calligraphy

Canada: A People’s History (Volume One)

This Is Our Writing

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