The Crack in the Teacup: The Life of an Old Woman Steeped in Stories

Joan Bodger, author of the popular How the Heather Looks and several children’s books, grew up absorbing stories – first the yarns of her Welsh-born mother, then the world’s collected legends and folk tales. Accordingly, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the World

By Hugh Brody

A mix of anthropological text and memoir, The Other Side of Eden takes the reader into radical geographical and intellectual terrain. Drawing on his extensive experience living amongst “hunter-gatherer” societies – mainly in the Canadian ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America

By Victoria Freeman

Toronto-based author Victoria Freeman used to be like many Canadians: disconnected from her own history, ignorant about the extent to which her family has contributed to the dispossession of aboriginal people, yet saddled with an ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Better Happy than Rich? Canadians, Money, and the Meaning of Life

By Michael Adams

Hot on the heels of the best-selling Sex in the Snow, Michael Adams continues his examination of changing Canadian attitudes toward money and society in the equally engaging Better Happy Than Rich? Adams uses extensive ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Choose Me

By Evelyn Lau

As with much of Evelyn Lau’s previous writing – fiction, memoir, and poetry – the six stories and one novella in this collection obsessively track ill-fated, sexualized relationships between young women and much older men. ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Canadian Art: From Its Beginnings to 2000

By Anne Newlands ed.

There’s more to Canadian art than just the Group of Seven, as art historian Anne Newlands demonstrates in Canadian Art: From Its Beginnings to 2000. The book profiles 300 artists, presenting them in alphabetized one-page ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia

By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid are renowned for their award-winning cookbooks, Flatbreads and Flavours and Seductions of Rice. Like those two offerings, their new book, Hot Sour Salty Sweet, arises from their passion for travel ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

City of Glass: Douglas Coupland’s Vancouver

By Douglas Coupland

Reviewing (and reading, for that matter) Douglas Coupland is made difficult by Coupland’s approach to writing. One can never be sure if the perceived weaknesses or shortcomings are inadvertent or the result of some postmodern ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Young Men

By Russell Smith

These stories, in the main, are a kind of anthropological foray that might have been subtitled “Failing to Come of Age in Toronto.” “Slaves of Queen Street” or “Dimmish Lights, Middling City” would also have ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Long Shadows

By Erna Paris

As Erna Paris’s life was “forever altered” by a chance visit to a Nazi death camp, the reader too is forever changed by reading Long Shadows, her monumental study of the schism between real and ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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