| Book Review Menaced by Monetarism
by Brian Fawcett
According to McQuaig, from the 1930s through the mid-1980s Canadian government manipulated the money system to achieve a relative balance between employment growth and the need to maintain investor confidence by controlling inflation.
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| Book Review The Force of Illumination
by Mary Dalton
This new book is full of hard knowledge; the poems are suffused with an awareness of dissolution and death, and of the irretrievably lost past.
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| Book Review Back in the USSR
by Keith Nickson
It's an ambitious and exotic tale of Jewish-American immigrant life with a twist- this time the immigrants return to the Soviet Union seduced by the romance of socialism.
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| Book Review Taking Off Again
by Laura Paquet
What motivates a mogul? What makes entrepreneurs risk everything -- reputation, career and, of course, money -- in the pursuit of dreams that often only they can see?
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 | North Spirit
by Paulette Jiles,
288 pages $27.95 TC
ISBN: 0385254997
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Book Review A Culture on the Brink
by Wayne Grady
North Spirit is a memoir of the 10 years Jiles spent in northern Ontario, helping people in Cree and Ojibway villages set up Native-language radio stations supplied to them by the CBC and, later, returning to some of those villages as a playwright.
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| Book Review Words for Survival
by Olive Senior
A mixed bag of fiction, poetry, and testimony, Fiery Spirits brings together the work of 20 authors born in Africa, the Caribbean, and Canada.
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| Book Review Evolutionary Etudes
by Linda Leith
Nazneen Sheikh is an impressively talented novelist. The sensuousness of her prose is wedded throughout to sharp observation and a dry sense of humour.
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| Book Review Prison Pros and Cons
by Jeff Walker
Two basic elements of this memoir clash cacophonously: the surprising cosiness of Mel's time in the joint, and Mel's insufferable whining, which actually starts right after his arrest.
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| Book Review From Here to There
by Uma Parameswaran
The novel records many "documentary" details, some of them dated, such as the average salary and working conditions of a domestic. There is double victimization in that the employer holds the power of deportation over her head.
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| Book Review In the Deep Woods
by Sandra Nicholls
Domanski's rich, odd metaphors, synaesthetic special effects, and hypnotic language will have you listening for "the cricket's blue telegram / among the weeds" and pulling "dragon-thoughts out of empty air".
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| Book Review Thin on Top
by Glenn Sumi
When academics write about popular culture, it's like Pavarotti singing country and western. Something, almost always, is missing.
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| Interviews Home and Away - Elaine Kalman Naves speaks with Jane Urquhart
by Elaine Naves
This interview has been fused together out of two separate conversations with Jane Urquhart, one by phone on February 7, 1995 and the other in person on March 2 in Ottawa, the day after her husband had received the Order of Canada.
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| Letters to Editor Letters to the Editor
For once Michael Coren is right on the button! I have never been a fan either of his neoconservative agenda or the look-ma-no-hands schoolboy humour he enlists in its service, but my interest was piqued by his "Who Stole Reviewing?"
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| Prose/Poetry On earth as it is - an excerpt
by Steven Heighton
Could be that death comes in part because the sealed-up grief gradually squeezes out and destroys every essential life-organ.
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| Profiles Back to the Heart
by David Homel
Steven Heighton was born in Toronto of a Greek mother and a father whom he affectionately calls "a righteous Scot," a Navy man who was both father and soldier, teacher and preacher.
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| Grammar Girl Grammar Girl - U and Non-U
by Rose Thorne
Words can look right or wrong; they are formed by accretion and adaptation; they are shapes that time has established, that centuries of use have polished.
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| Up Front Up Front - Greatest Hits
by Barbara Carey
We live in a culture where everything has to be the BEST -- or else, so the underlying message goes, why should you bother buying it? It's the freshest breath, the brightest shine, the strongest pain reliever....
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| Opinion Cut the Crap about 'Kiddy Litter'!
by Joan Clark
Everyone knows that what we call literature would not exist without the territorial imperative, that compulsion that drives some of us to stake out an area of the imagination and intellect and copyright it as ours. There is a down side to this.
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| First Novels First Novels - Sense and Sensibilities
by Eva Tihanyi
The painter's eye is everywhere, celebrating the physical world, "the pink bricks of Niagara, flesh of salmon, of watermelon, ripened peaches, the pink cheeks of young soldiers, young rebels, pushed into the earth."
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Theatre
by David Prosser
Maybe I'm suffering from a surfeit of surrealism, or maybe it's just that the idea of printing stage directions as if they were free verse strikes me as deeply pretentious.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Glenn Sumi
Lacking a firm plot and controlling narrator (someone who could bridge these events together in an artful way), the book feels less like a novel than a memoir penned by a pedantic, prattling uncle.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Roger Mason
Formosa Straits rattles along, and if you don't mind formula writing and wooden dialogue, not to mention some pretty two-dimensional characterization, it might make a passable holiday read.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-Fiction
by David Homel
True to his trade as a journalist, Abel gives us a wider, historical view of his home ground.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Poetry
by Colin Morton
Tom Marshall is most himself in "Fugue for Lonnie" -- the bemused lover, unable to assert himself too forcefully, constrained by a natural reticence, speaking quietly yet with deep conviction.
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 | The Golden Disk
by Bell Kilby,
32 pages $18.95 TC
ISBN: 0385254415
|  | Songs Are Thoughts Poems of the Inuit
by Maryclare Foa, Neil Philip,
24 pages $19.95 TC
ISBN: 038525458X
| | Fearless Jake
by Margaret Haffner, Mark Thurman,
24 pages $5.99 MM
ISBN: 0590124242
| |  | Grandfather Drum
by Ferguson Plain,
32 pages $9.95 TC
ISBN: 0921827415
|  | Freedom Child of the Sea
by Richardo Keens-Douglas, Julia Gukova,
24 pages $5.95 TP
ISBN: 1550373722
|  | The Watcher
by Brenda Silsbe, Alice Priestley,
24 pages $4.95 TP
ISBN: 1550373846
| | | Ladybug Garden
by Celia Godkin,
48 pages $18.95 TC
ISBN: 1550410830
| | The Sugaring-Off Party
by Jonathan London, Gilles Pelletier,
32 pages $16.95 CT
ISBN: 1895555841
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Children's Books Children's Books - Good Intentions
by Rhea Tregebov
For publishers and authors, it is hard to resist the temptation to make children's books didactic. For teachers and parents, it is hard to resist the opportunity for edification -- if not moralizing -- that children's books offer.
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| At Large At Large
by Michael Coren
Every day we see the edges of the intellectual and political envelope reduced and curtailed- if we are not careful there won't even be any room left for the address.
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| Douglas Fetherling Russell in Canada
by Douglas Fetherling
One of the most prolific and facile writers of his time, Russell also possessed invisible antennae that permitted him to pick up signals from any publication in the English-speaking world that seemed to be emitting a hint of liberalism.
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