★ Field of Glory: The Battle of Crysler’s Farm, 1813

On a rainy November day in 1813, a greatly outnumbered army of British soldiers, supported by a few Canadian militia and 30 Mohawk warriors, stood on the muddy fields of John Crysler’s farm on the ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: History

Too Young to Fight: Memories from Our Youth During World War II

By Priscilla Galloway, ed.

Writer Priscilla Galloway has solicited 11 original reminiscences from Canadian writers who were children during the Second World War. Although most grew up in safety here in Canada, each was unforgettably touched by the war. ... Read More »

February 10, 2004

Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon

By Barbara Hodgson

While opium den is a term used by today’s interior decorators to describe any room with cushions on the floor, it wasn’t so long ago that it referred to a place where high and low ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Baby Blues

By Drew Hayden Taylor

Look out Norm Foster! Drew Hayden Taylor is nipping at your heels with The Baby Blues. Like so many of Foster’s plays, this one should be right at home in summer theatres across the country. ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Summer of Apartment X

By Lesley Choyce

As warm as a beach blanket, as regular as the tide, and as endearingly dull as a made-for-TV movie, this very slight novella takes a clichéd idea and gives it a gentle, middlebrow spin. The ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Halfway to the East

By Marusya Bociurkiw

Throughout her first collection of poems, Halfway to the East, Marusya Bociurkiw, a Vancouver-based media artist, displays the gifts of a first-rate social observer.Bociurkiw is mainly concerned with two subjects, the immigrant and the gay ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Colours of the Forest

By Tom Wayman

For years, British Columbia poet Tom Wayman has had a reputation for writing accessible, witty poetry about the everyday themes of work, home, and family. Wayman’s latest effort, The Colours of the Forest, bills itself ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Climates

By Herménégilde Chiasson, Fred Cogswell and Jo-Anne Elder, trans.

Reading Herménégilde Chiasson, one is reminded that there are people in the world for whom art is oxygen, insulin, blood. The poems of this multidisciplinary Acadian (he is also a photographer, printmaker, filmmaker, and playwright, ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Mona Lisa Smiled a Little

By Rachel Wyatt

To each their own: words that sum up the ideal and the struggle faced by the characters in Mona Lisa Smiled a Little. Alameida Kerwell has the ideal nuclear family: a husband, two grown daughters, ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Strange and Familiar Places

By Kenneth Radu

Daydreaming about sex has gotten more than one person through a boring church service, but Kenneth Radu’s Strange and Familiar Places carries mental escapism to new heights. Radu’s heroine Evelyn is always on the lookout ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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★ Field of Glory: The Battle of Crysler’s Farm, 1813

Too Young to Fight: Memories from Our Youth During World War II

Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon

The Baby Blues

The Summer of Apartment X

Halfway to the East

The Colours of the Forest

Climates

Mona Lisa Smiled a Little

Strange and Familiar Places

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