Weird Sex & Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena

Any attempt at defining Canada’s cultural landscape must acknowledge such pioneering works as Northrop Frye’s The Bush Garden and Margaret Atwood’s Survival. Vancouver film critic Katherine Monk recognizes the critical foundations laid down in these ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Galileo’s Mistake: The Archaeology of a Myth

By Wade Rowland

Veteran journalist Wade Rowland follows up the success of Ockham’s Razor with another examination of the conflict between science and faith. In Galileo’s Mistake, Rowland ventures to the very roots of that schism and challenges ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Path of Totality

By Audrey Thomas

In her introduction to The Path of Totality, a selection of new and previously published stories from her 35-year oeuvre, Audrey Thomas confesses that “Almost every story in this collection has something to do with ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Spadework

By Timothy Findley

Since his earliest novels, Timothy Findley has explored the many ways people betray their own better natures. Spadework continues this trend in showing how demons of anarchy and ambivalence conspire to destroy one man’s responsibility ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar

By Ashok Mathur

Calgary writer Ashok Mathur’s first novel, Once Upon an Elephant, was a perfectly pitched satire in which a gruesome and bizarre double murder entangles a diverse group of characters, including the elephant-headed deity Ganesh. Mathur ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Last Summer at Barebones

By Diane Baker Mason

There is something of the talk-show confessional in Diane Baker Mason’s first novel, Last Summer at Barebones – the embittered, vengeful narrator, Dee Graham, who has yet to overcome her emotional and physical struggles as ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Critical Injuries

By Joan Barfoot

Walking into a small-town ice cream parlour in the middle of a hold-up, 49-year-old Isla is shot and ultimately paralyzed from the waist down. The shooter, 17-year-old Roddy, takes off in a panic but is ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Waiting for the Sun

By Alison Lohans, Marilyn Mets and Peter Ledwon, illus.

To pass the time while she waits for her new brother to be born, Mollie makes a list of important things to show him: the five wriggly tadpoles she caught, a newly laid chicken egg, ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Oscar Wilde’s the Happy Prince

By Robin Muller, illus.

It is often said that Oscar Wilde wrote The Happy Prince for his children, but I have my doubts. Wilde first told the story to a group of Cambridge students and read it to his ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Mama Likes to Mambo

By Helaine Becker, John Beder, illus.

Nonsense verse has a ready appeal for most young children, and ever since the publication of Dennis Lee’s Alligator Pie, Canadian poets have produced many fun rhymes for families to chant and chuckle over. Mama ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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