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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmstead and America in the Nineteenth Century

Frederick Law Olmstead is a fascinating character and an inspiration to all those who take a long time to find their direction in life. After a somewhat haphazard education, he travelled widely and made forays ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Is the Pope Catholic? A Woman Confronts Her Church

By Joanna Manning

“Hope has two daughters,” quotes Catholic theologian, feminist, and social activist Joanna Manning. “Courage and anger.” The source of this wisdom? Saint Augustine himself, one of Catholicism’s leading misogynists. This fragment from Manning’s book, Is ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women’s Cinema

By Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow and Janine Marchessault, eds.

Unlike Canadian literature, which currently enjoys great international popularity, Canadian movies remain, shall we say, an acquired taste, both at home and abroad. While the publication of a book like Gendering the Nation won’t go ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

How to Read a Poem…and Start a Poetry Circle

By Molly Peacock

That “parse” and “parch” are such near homophonic kin is surely no accident. Nor is it insignificant that every entrance of “analysis” is announced by the footman “anal.” Perhaps this is why so many readers ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

A Nurse’s Story: Life, Death, and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit

By Tilda Shalof

The key error that potential readers of A Nurse’s Story could make is to assume that the book is chiefly a worthy, public-interest kind of volume; the kind that a good citizen really ought to ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Kiss and Tell: An Intimate History of Kissing

By Alison Garwood-Jones

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Julie Enfield explores the physical and emotional journey our lips can lead us on in her first book, Kiss and Tell: An Intimate History of Kissing.The bulk of the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Ross Macdonald: The Life of a Mystery Writer

By Tom Nolan

Although crime novelist Ross Macdonald was born in Northern California in 1915, he was heavily influenced by the time he spent north of the 49th. Macdonald (real name: Kenneth Millar) spent his childhood in Vancouver, ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Toronto: A Literary Guide

By Greg Gatenby

This may not come out right, but a couple of times as I was ambling happily through Greg Gatenby’s Toronto: A Literary Guide I had the waking dream that this was some kind of surveillance ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Big Breath of a Wish

By Richard Harrison

It’s rare to find a book of poetry that ought to be recommended to new parents. Yet for such readers Big Breath of a Wish, by Calgary poet Richard Harrison (nominated for Best Poetry Book ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Juno: Canadians At D-Day June 6, 1944

By Ted Barris

History often seems inevitable. Sixty years after the fact, when thinking about victory in the Second World War, we point to American industry, British pluck, the endless Russian steppe, and, yes, Canadian determination, and say ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: History

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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmstead and America in the Nineteenth Century

Is the Pope Catholic? A Woman Confronts Her Church

Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women’s Cinema

How to Read a Poem…and Start a Poetry Circle

A Nurse’s Story: Life, Death, and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit

Kiss and Tell: An Intimate History of Kissing

Ross Macdonald: The Life of a Mystery Writer

★ Toronto: A Literary Guide

Big Breath of a Wish

Juno: Canadians At D-Day June 6, 1944

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